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　　The dining rooms of Robert Adam's interiors, for example, typically incorporated classical statuary. The second earl of Shelburne was a particularly voracious collector. He brought back nine lifesized figures which he set into niches in his dining room at Lansdowne. And when the second duchess of Portland obtained a Roman cameo glass vase in a much-publicized sale, Josiah Wedgwood produced jasper ware reproductions of it.

　　After the arrival of steam-powered transportation in 1825, the Grand Tour continued, but with several major differences. It was less expensive to undertake, safer, easier, and most importantly, open to anyone. During much of the 19th century, most educated young men of privilege undertook the Grand Tour. Later, it became fashionable for young women to do so as well. Who can forget the trip to Italy, with a spinster aunt as chaperon, Baedecker guide in hand, featured in E. M. Forster's novelA Room with a View