Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of charts x
5. Notes on contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 ‘Antiquity mad’ 19
8. 2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again 42
9. 3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects 63
10. 4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century 86
11. 5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles 106
12. 6 ‘Worth viewing by travellers’ 127
13. 7 ‘Enjoying country life to the full – only the English know how to do that!’ 145
14. 8 Magnificent and mundane 168
15. 9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597–1623 188
16. 10 ‘No Lady could do this’ 206
17. Bibliography 225
18. Index 242