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Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian

Originally given as a lecture at the British School at Rome’s Roma Britannica conference and to large audiences at Arundel Castle (under the auspices of the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), the British Institute in Florence and at the University of Cambridge.

The idea was first mooted in Chaney, The Evolution of English Collecting (New Haven and London, 2003), p. 105.Material from it was included in ‘A Grand Tour and its Cultural Memorials’, The Grand Tour, Gayle Chong Kwan, eds. Alexandra Boyd and Peter Bonnell (Artsway, Sway, 2009), pp. 1-3; book of Obelisk: A History, Brian Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long and Benjamin Weiss (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2009), in History Today (January, 2010), pp. 56-57; the entry on ‘The Grand Tour’, Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, ed. Dale Southerton, 3 vols, Sage Publications, 2011, pp. 688-92; conference paper: ‘Inigo Jones and Egypt’, given at conference on ‘Inigo Jones, the Queen’s House and languages of Stuart culture’, 15-16 February 2012 The Queen’s House, Greenwich, London.

Also for lecture: ‘The Evolution of the Grand Tour and the Discovery of Art,’ forthcoming at the University of Oxford conference on The European Grand Tour, 2-3 March 2013.