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From The Institute of Art History at Zagreb:

Katrina O’Loughlin, Ana Šverko, and Elke Katharina Wittich, eds., Travel Stories and the Eastern Adriatic with a Section about the Travels of Thomas Graham Jackson (Zagreb: The Institute of Art History, 2025), 296 pages, ISBN: 978-9537875466, €20.

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. The 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, “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. 1675–1941), (Travelogues Dalmatia 2024–27).

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Acknowledgments

Ana Sverko — Preface: Exploring Genre, Place, and Travellers within the Travel Narrative

Section 1 | Travellers and Travel Narratives
• Frances Sands — Sir John Soane’s Lecture Drawings: A Virtual Grand Tour
• David McCallam — Carlo Bobba, Souvenirs d’un voyage en Dalmatie (1810): Travel, Empire, and Hospitality in the Early Nineteenth-Century Adriatic
• Ante Orlović — A Photographic Album with a Description of His Majesty the Emperor and King Franz Joseph I’s Tour through Dalmatia in 1875
• Boris Dundović and Eszter Baldavári — The Balkan Letters by Ernő Foerk: A Travelogue Mapping the Architectural Trajectories of Ottoman and Orthodox Heritage
• 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
• Mateo Bratanić — Travellers, Historians, and Antiquaries: How Thomas Graham Jackson Wrote History in Dalmatia, the Quarnero, and Istria
• Krasanka Majer Jurišić and Petar Puhmajer — Thomas Graham Jackson and the Island of Rab
• Ana Torlak — Thomas Graham Jackson and Salona
• Sanja Žaja Vrbica — The Portrait of Dubrovnik by Thomas Graham Jackson
• Mateja Jerman — The Church Treasuries of Dalmatia and the Bay of Kotor through the Eyes of Thomas Graham Jackson

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Cover image: Soane office hand: Detail of a Royal Academy Lecture Drawing Showing an Interior View of the Temple of Jupiter at Diocletian’s Palace, Spalatro (Split), after Robert Adam, Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia (London 1764, plate 33), 1806–19 (London: Sir John Soane’s Museum, SM 19/11/1; Ardon Bar-Hama).