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Cust, Lionel; Colvin, Sidney [Hrsg.]
History of the Society of Dilettanti — London, 1898

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CHAPTER VIII

"Removals:

new

Thatched

House

Tavern;

Willis's

Rooms.

Removals: new Thatched House Tavern j Willis's Rooms
—State of the Society—Sir C. T. Newton, Sir F.
Leigh ton, &c.—Art collectors and amateurs ; country
gentry, &c,j Bar and Bench—Pollock, Venables,
Bow en — Learning; the Civil Service; Foreign
Diplomacy—New antiquarian enterprise: Mr. Pullan
and the Temple of Teos—The Smintheum—Temple
of Priene—' Ionian Antiquities,' vol. iv—Time and
mode of publication—Penrose's 'Athenian Archi-
tecture,' new edition—Appeals from various quarters:
Temple of Ephesus; British School at Athens—
Changes and removals since 18 8 8—New members—
Discussions and resolutions—Retrospect: changed
conditions of archaeological study—Decline of classical
enthusiasm in England—The Archaeological Institute
of Rome j various foreign schools at Athens—
Revival of the study in England, but in another
shape—Part taken, or to be taken, by the Dilettanti
—Conclusion.

DURING the secretaryship of Mr. W. R.
I Hamilton the Dilettanti had been obliged
to shift their quarters,, as the premises
occupied by Mr. Willis at the old Thatched
House Tavern were disposed of in 1842-3 to
make room for the Conservative Club. Mr. Willis,
however, merely transferred his quarters to the
 
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