"Don't accuse me of Anglomania, dear reader, ifI very frequently mention the English in this book; they are now too numerous in Italy to be over looked, they traverse the country in huge swarms, camp in all the inns, run around all over the place in order to see everything... When you see those fair, red-cheeked people with their shiny carriages, colourful lackeys, neighing horses, chambermaids and other precious belongings, inquisitive and clean, crossing the Alps and wandering through Italy, you feel you have experienced an elegant mass migration."' With these ironic sentences in his Reisebilder (Pictures of Travel), which appeared between 1826 and 1831, Heinrich Heine passed comment on a phenomenon of his time - the British enthusiasm for travel.

"Don"t accuse me of Anglomania, dear reader, ifI very frequently mention the English in this book; they are now too numerous in Italy to be over looked, they traverse the country in huge swarms, camp in all the inns, run around all over the place in order to see everything... When you see those fair, red-cheeked people with their shiny carriages, colourful lackeys, neighing horses, chambermaids and other precious belongings, inquisitive and clean, crossing the Alps and wandering through Italy, you feel you have experienced an elegant mass migration."" With these ironic sentences in his Reisebilder (Pictures of Travel), which appeared between 1826 and 1831, Heinrich Heine passed comment on a phenomenon of his time - the British enthusiasm for travel.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, too, could not resist a remark on this topic when he makes Mephisto say to Faust on Walpurgis Night:

TURNER ON TOUR

THE FIRsTJ0uRNEY ON THE CONTINENT，1802

WATERLOO AND RHINE，1817

ITALY，1819

RIVERS OF EUROPE：TRAVELS BETWEEN

  1821 AND 1832

ITALY．1828 AND 1833：

ROME AND VENICE

TRAVELS ON THE CONTINENT，1835 TO 1839

THE LAST TRIP TO VENICE OF 1840

SWIZERLAND AND GERMANY，1841 TO 1844

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