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ALS to Sir John Pringle
Title
ALS to Sir John Pringle, 22 November 1775.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
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Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn MSS F12463
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
Ramsay travelled to Italy for the third time in 1775-1777 after an injury in 1772 had put an end to his work as a painter. In this letter he describes his efforts to cure his rheumatic complaint with remedies suggested by the physician Pringle. He outlines his travel from England to Rome via Paris, where he consulted Dr Theodore Tronchin, and discusses the various baths which Ramsay tried, or which were suggested to him by Pringle, Tronchin, Sir Rowland Alstone, and Sir John Dink: Pisa, Balaruc-les-bains, Poitevin, and Nimes. Finally, Ramsay notes his fellow English travellers in Rome: Sir John Lindsay; Edward Clive, 1st Earl Powis; John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney; George Nassau Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper.His career as a painter virtually ended by this time, Ramsay spent his 1775-1777 trip to Italy engaged in antiquarian pursuits, especially in research on Horace's Sabine Villa. He wrote a (never-published) treatise on the subject.
Variant and related titles
Grand tour.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
Series
The Grand Tour
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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