Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy at the Lewis Walpole Library
September 10 2025
Picture: Lewis Walpole Library
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale have just today opened their latest temporary exhibition entitled Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy.
According to their website:
Known primarily as a caricature artist, Thomas Patch (1725-1782) in fact engaged in a much wider array of activities. He was a landscape painter, experimental printmaker, and a dealer of antiquities and old master paintings. He was also among the first scholars of early Renaissance art. This exhibition will explore the many aspects of Patch’s art, life, and associations with the British community of diplomats, tourists, artists, and collectors in Italy.
The exhibition will run until 23rd December 2025.
