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74 History of the Society of Dilettanti
Another traveller in classical lands whose work
deserves recognition was Edmund Chishull of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Having received
from his college the 'traveller's place,' he was in
16 9 8 appointed chaplain to the factory of the
Turkey Company at Smyrna, and during his
residence there made various expeditions in Asia
Minor and Turkey, of which he published ac-
counts which proved valuable to later explorers1.
Chishull found a friend and editor in the well-
known antiquary Dr. Mead, and also owed some of
his information to a French explorer in Asia Minor,
M. Pitton de Tournefort, the botanist, whose voyage
into the Levant was translated into English in
1718. The published accounts of these several
travels, together with the impetus given to the
taste for Greek art by the marvellous yields of
archaeological excavation in Italy, and the attrac-
tion of an added spice of adventure, no doubt
supplied the stimulus which induced some young
English aristocrats on the Grand Tour, such as Lord
Sandwich, Lord Charlemont, Mr. Ponsonby, and
others, to extend their travels to Greece and the
coasts of Asia Minor. The experience gained and
interest awakened during these journeys were reflected
in the subsequent action of the Society of Dilettanti.
British Another group of persons who shared the pre-
artists in vailing enthusiasm for classical antiquity and < virtu'
B^ettL ham was to ^e ^oxm^ among the colony of British artists
and Gavin wno made Rome their head-quarters from the
Hamilton, early part of the eighteenth century. Among these
Dr. Span of Lyons, Lond. i(>8a, folio. Spon and Wheler met and
compared notes with M. de Nointel at Constantinople.
1 Inscriftio Sigea antiquissima, 1711; Antiquitates Asiaticae, etc.,
1728; Travels in Turkey and back toEngland, 174.7 (a posthumous work).
Another traveller in classical lands whose work
deserves recognition was Edmund Chishull of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Having received
from his college the 'traveller's place,' he was in
16 9 8 appointed chaplain to the factory of the
Turkey Company at Smyrna, and during his
residence there made various expeditions in Asia
Minor and Turkey, of which he published ac-
counts which proved valuable to later explorers1.
Chishull found a friend and editor in the well-
known antiquary Dr. Mead, and also owed some of
his information to a French explorer in Asia Minor,
M. Pitton de Tournefort, the botanist, whose voyage
into the Levant was translated into English in
1718. The published accounts of these several
travels, together with the impetus given to the
taste for Greek art by the marvellous yields of
archaeological excavation in Italy, and the attrac-
tion of an added spice of adventure, no doubt
supplied the stimulus which induced some young
English aristocrats on the Grand Tour, such as Lord
Sandwich, Lord Charlemont, Mr. Ponsonby, and
others, to extend their travels to Greece and the
coasts of Asia Minor. The experience gained and
interest awakened during these journeys were reflected
in the subsequent action of the Society of Dilettanti.
British Another group of persons who shared the pre-
artists in vailing enthusiasm for classical antiquity and < virtu'
B^ettL ham was to ^e ^oxm^ among the colony of British artists
and Gavin wno made Rome their head-quarters from the
Hamilton, early part of the eighteenth century. Among these
Dr. Span of Lyons, Lond. i(>8a, folio. Spon and Wheler met and
compared notes with M. de Nointel at Constantinople.
1 Inscriftio Sigea antiquissima, 1711; Antiquitates Asiaticae, etc.,
1728; Travels in Turkey and back toEngland, 174.7 (a posthumous work).