Age of the Grand Tour

About this book

The book begins with a brilliantly evocative essay by Anthony Burgess which strikingly recreates the Grand Tour experience and a brief but penetrating article on eighteenth-century art by Francis Haskell. The book includes sixteen full-page colour plates and four facsimile views by Piranesi and Zocchi magnificent examples of the painters and the engravers art all superbly reproduced with sensitive accuracy. The art of Turner Tiepolo Wattreau and Canaletto has never appeared to a greater advantage. Throughout the book are interspersed more than 230 monochrome engravings water-colours and drawings.