Five Men Behaving Badly: A Really Grand Tour of Kent
- Free for Arts Society Sarum Members. Non members are asked to pay a donation.
- 10 Jun 25
- Salisbury Methodist Church, St. Edmund's Church St, Salisbury
- 10:50 to 12:00
A lecture by Lars Tharp (Antiques Road Show) on the 5 day peregrination in Kent in 1732 by five influential men, including William Hogarth and Samuel Scott.
At midnight five men in high spirits take oars for Gravesend. Over the next five days they tour the Medway towns, as recorded by participant Ebeneezer Forest, whose manuscript was bound with watercolours added by fellow travellers, Samuel Scott and William Hogarth. The resulting sixteen-page account transports us to a corner of Kent in 1732 – a mock-epic ‘tour’ whose track we can follow today. Mud and water fights on the shore; uncomfortable lodgings; strange monuments and irreverent doings in a church-yard: after 300 years some sites (and behaviours) appear unchanged today. And just who were these men?