Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century ...
Bruce Redford
1 After dinner he recorded in his diary, “Much conversation was had respecting the examinations of Artists & Amateurs respecting the Elgin Marbles by the Committee of Members of the House of Commons. ... As a consequence, the publication of the Report. . . on the Earl ofElgin''s Collection of Sculptured Marbles marks the end of their cultural hegemony: the heirs of Robert Wood and James Stuart emerge from its pages as fractious, fallible, and—in the newly pejorative sense— ...