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Travel and the British country house

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Introduction: travel and the British country house: Jon Stobart

1 ‘Antiquity mad’: the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730–1803: Rebecca Campion

2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: John Harrison

3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house: Emile de Bruijn

4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood: Rosie MacArthur

5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travellers’ accounts of proto-museums visited en route, 1683–1855: Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster

6 ‘Worth viewing by travellers’: Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century: Jocelyn Anderson

7 ‘Enjoying country life to the full – only the English know how to do that!’: appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers: Kristóf Fatsar

8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c.1730–1800: Jon Stobart

9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597–1623: Peter Edwards

10 ‘No Lady could do this’: navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c.1810–50: Ellen Filor

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