Travel Stories and the Eastern Adriatic. With a Section About the Travels of Thomas Graham Jackson
Editors
Katrina O’Loughlin, Ana Šverko, Elke Katharina Wittich
Manuscript Editor
Tomislav Bosnić
Copy Editor
Sarah Ann Rengel
Translation of Selected Texts
Sarah Ann Rengel
Graphic Editor
Damir Gamulin
Volume Reviewers
Joško Belamarić, Marko Špikić
Reviewers
Ivan Alduk, Irena Benyovsky Latin, Iain Gordon Brown, Daniela Calciu, Franko Ćorić, Dragan Damjanović, Hrvoje Gržina, Irena Kraševac, Matko Matija Marušić, Goran Nikšić, Daniel Premerl, Josip Vrandečić
Publisher
Institute of Art History, May 2025
Printing and binding
Sveučilišna tiskara d.o.o.
Material description
296 pp; illus.
ISBN 978-953-7875-46-6
Here you can download impressum, contents, acknowledgments, preface, list of illustrations, and list of contributors (pdf, 653 kb).
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Travel Stories is the fourth collection of selected papers from a series of annual academic conferences held at the Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre in Split, which began in 2014. This current volume is a direct continuation of the book Discovering Dalmatia: Dalmatia in Travelogues, Images, and Photographs, published in 2019. The same editorial team and volume reviewers have this time grouped the selected papers from the Split conferences into two sections. The first section, titled “Travellers and Travel Narratives”, brings together five papers related to travel narratives and the Eastern Adriatic over a broad timeline. These papers are authored by individuals from various backgrounds and discuss sources that include a variety of different media (lectures, drawings, books, photographs, diaries, letters), contributing to the exploration of the range of media used in travel narratives within this multimedia genre. The second section follows the Victorian architect Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) on his journey along the eastern Adriatic coast, focusing on selected episodes from this trip, as described in his renowned three-volume work Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado (Oxford, 1887), which is dedicated to the architectural and artistic heritage of this region. The editorial process and publication of this book coincides with the first year of a new project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, dedicated to Dalmatia and travel writing, “‘Where East Meets West’: Travel Narratives and the Fashioning of a Dalmatian Artistic Heritage in Modern Europe (c. 1675 – c. 1941),” (Travelogues Dalmatia 2024–27).
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This richly-illustrated volume problematises the perception and interpretation of Dalmatian monuments by the influential British researchers, designers, and pedagogues Soane and Jackson; by reporters of the cultural wealth of the province in the unstable times of the transition from Venetian and French to Austrian administration; and by local photographers who commemorate the adventus of Francis Joseph. At the same time, it provides an insight into one of the most important Croatian artists of the twentieth century’s perceptions of the artistic heritage of the Middle East. Continuing the previously initiated research, this publication enriches the knowledge of the cultural heritage of Dalmatia and with its diversity of approaches contributes to the fact that this province can no longer be considered terra incognita, as was the case at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Marko Špikić, from the review
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This volume is divided into two sections: “Travellers and Travel Narratives,” which examines historical travel accounts and media from diverse perspectives, and “Thomas Graham Jackson and the Eastern Adriatic,” highlighting the Victorian architect’s detailed documentation of Dalmatian artistic heritage. This volume is shaped by a collaborative research process in a fascinating emerging field, where the editors have worked to forge a dialogue between scholars and projects. This is also the first time that a group of essays has been dedicated to Jackson's travelogue – one of the most significant and comprehensive books on the Eastern Adriatic’s artistic, architectural, and urban heritage in the nineteenth century. These papers form the foundation of the project “Travelogues Dalmatia” (2023–27), conducted by the Institute of Art History and funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The project is dedicated to exploring the role of travel writing in shaping perceptions of Dalmatia’s artistic heritage within modern Europe, further advancing interdisciplinary studies of Dalmatian travelogues as a multifaceted medium instrumental in defining Europe’s artistic legacy.
Joško Belamarić, from the review
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
12
Ana Šverko
Preface: Exploring Genre, Place, and Travellers Within the Travel Narrative
Section 1
TRAVELLERS AND TRAVEL NARRATIVES
22
Frances Sands
Sir John Soane’s Lecture Drawings: a Virtual Grand Tour
48
David McCallam
Carlo Bobba, Souvenirs d’un voyage en Dalmatie (1810): Travel, Empire, and Hospitality in the Early Nineteenth-Century Adriatic
62
Ante Orlović
A Photographic Album with a Description of His Majesty the Emperor and King Franz Joseph I’s Tour Through Dalmatia in 1875
86
Boris Dundović and Eszter Baldavári
The Balkan Letters by Ernő Foerk: A Travelogue Mapping the Architectural Trajectories of Ottoman and Orthodox Heritage
116
Dalibor Prančević and Barbara Vujanović
Ivan Meštrović’s Reflections from His Travels to the Middle East
Section 2
THOMAS GRAHAM JACKSON AND THE EASTERN ADRIATIC
146
Mateo Bratanić
Travellers, Historians, and Antiquaries: How Thomas Graham Jackson Wrote History in Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria
166
Krasanka Majer Jurišić and Petar Puhmajer
Thomas Graham Jackson and the Island of Rab
190
Ana Torlak
Thomas Graham Jackson and Salona
214
Sanja Žaja Vrbica
The Portrait of Dubrovnik by Thomas Graham Jackson
240
Mateja Jerman
The Church Treasuries of Dalmatia and the Bay of Kotor Through the Eyes of Thomas Graham Jackson
280
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
288
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
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