1709 Venice (3 May: with Lord Charles Somerset and William Harvey; SP 99/58, f.32)
1726 Bologna (Jan.; Gascoigne jnl.MSS)
1740 Rome ('le petit Cook' and Lord Stafford attending the Princess Borghese; de Brosses, 2:189)
1745 Venice (Feb.: attended a dinner given by Lord Holderness for the Dilettanti; Dilettanti MSS, J. Gray, 12 Feb. 1745)
1751-3 Rome (Easter 1751 - Easter 1752), Naples (after 18 Mar.), Rome (May - 19 Sep. 1752), Florence, Lucca, Capri (Apr. - May 1753), Naples (by 10 Jun.), Capri
In 1751 and 1752 Cook ['Kuch'] lodged in Rome with Richard Phelps ['Feb/Felp'] at the Palazzo Mignanelli.1 Both belonged to Lord Charlemont's set in Rome, and both appeared in caricatures by Reynolds painted in 1751.2 On 18 March 1752 Cook was reported to have left Rome for Naples.3 On his return he was listed among the 'Generous Promoters' of Lord Charlemont's British Academy.4 In September he went to Florence and Lucca with another promoter, Sir Thomas Kennedy.5 By 10 June 1753 he had returned to Naples, having spent nine weeks on the island of Capri, and had already persuaded Kennedy to return with him to the island.6
1. AVR SA, S.Andrea delle Fratte. 2. Sutton 1956, 113. O'Connor 1983, 13. 3. Wicklow MSS (J. Russel, 18 Mar. 1752). 4. GM, 22[1752]:288. 5. Wicklow MSS (J. Russel, 20 Sep. 1752). 6. HMC Charlemont, 1:185.
1753 Turin (7 Nov: introduced to Horace Mann as an 'Excellent Balance Master' who 'pleased all his spectators wonderfully'; SP 105/310, f.175)