| Resumo: | This doctoral thesis presents significant new visual and written evidence of British Travellers in Seville between 1723 and 1854, set against a consolidation and rearticulation of the existing knowledge in the research field. This is done with particular reference to the travellers’ descriptions of architecture and the urban landscape, and above all, the analysis of the drawings they made when in the city. As a direct result of a systematic and comprehensive search through archives in Britain, a catalogue was formed of eighty-eight artists and travellers that contains a considerable amount of previously unseen written and visual material, particularly the decade between 1835 and 1845, which radically alters current understanding of the early 19th-century traveller in terms of gender, age and heritage. The research establishes the intellectual framework in which these drawings originated in order to reveal deeper meaning to the artists’ architectural ideas as presented in their drawings. What emerges is an assemblage of insightful drawings in which the architecture of Seville is scrutinized by the artist. In turn, this enhances the value of these recently discovered views and permits a deeper knowledge and appreciation of Seville’s architectural landscapes. Finally, this thesis draws attention to the work of three artists whose unpublished drawings of Seville were located in the course of the research: Cecilia Montgomery, John Gardner Wilkinson and Nathaniel Armstrong Wells. This thesis is only the first step in an ongoing investigation into the potential of the documentation that has so far been located. Of course, since most travellers’ experiences were not geographically limited to this city alone, nor were their interests solely related to architecture, the travellers in this catalogue will be of interest to researchers in diverse research fields.
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