Samuel James Ainsley

[1] From 1842 to 1844 Ainsley, on three separate trips, accompanied George Dennis in investigating tombs and monuments from ancient Etruria, the Etruscan civilization.

[2] From 1844 to 1847 Dennis, unaccompanied by Ainsley, continued to travel in Italy and investigate the ruins and cemeteries of Etruria.

[3] In 1842 Ainsley accompanied the artist Thomas Cole on a six-week trip to Sicily, where they made many sketches.

They visited the ruins at Selinus and Agrigento[4] and made a nocturnal ascent of Mount Etna.

[7] Some of Ainsley's drawings and watercolours have been of lasting value to Italian field-workers studying the rock cemeteries of Middle Etruria.