London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, At the JUVENILE LIBRARY,
Greek sculptor, active ca. 10-20 CE
Bolognese painter, 1578-1660
Italian architect and painter, 1404-72
Ann Flaxman's An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome tells the story of a female Grand Tour, something quite rare, and of an extended artist's visit to Italy, something quite common. In 1787 Flaxman set out for France and Italy with her husband, the sculptor John Flaxman, and a small company of fellow travellers. During her journey and in the months that followed her arrival in Rome, Flaxman kept a perceptive and entertaining journal for the benefit of friends at home, a group that included William and Catherine Blake.
That I may State matters of fact as they happen'd, I will begin with my own Sufferings in the Stage Coach to Brighton & however Insipid the Detail I am about to make may be yet will I do my best & hope the partiality of those Friends into whose hands it may fall will cast a thick veil over the defects & remember only those things that are worthy if any such there Should be —
