1763 - 4 Florence (Oct. - Dec. 1763), Siena (5 Dec. 1763), Capua (9 Feb. 1764)
1768 Venice (2 May 1768), Turin (30 Sep.), Florence (26 Nov.)
A number of references to a Mr Horne in Italy in 1763 - 4 may refer to the same person. A Mr Horne was in Florence between October and December 1763 and on 5 December 1763 Horne and Pickersgill were sharing lodgings in Siena.1 On 9 February 1764 a Mr Horne passed through Capua on his way to Naples.2 In an undated letter Joshua Pickersgill refered to Mr Horne 'now returned from Geneva', as a 'very polite, well educated gentleman, and free from all sort of prejudices. We are often together, either by chance or inclination, and he is of a very amusing Conversation'.3
A Mr Horne, perhaps the same, arrived in Venice on 2 May 1768.4 In September he was in Turin, staying at the Hotel aux Armes d'Angleterre, telling Charles Townley he had passed the Alps three times and had spent the last three months in Switzerland.5 He arrived in Florence on 26 November.6 (He was conceivably the 'Roberto Hord' who arrived in Venice on 27 May 1767, see Andrew Noel).
In the Soane Museum there are a number of drawings of Paestum, bound up with others used for Thomas Major's Paestum of 1768, by 'Horne', described as an Englishman living in Florence7 (an Edward Horne subscribed for three copies of Major's Paestum).
1. Martin jnl.MSS. 2. ASN cra 1277. 3. Pickersgill letters MSS. 4. ASV is 759. 5. Townley MSS, jnl., 30 Sep. 1768. 6. Gazz.Tosc. 7. Notes by M. McCarthy.