Richard Twiss (writer)

Life

Works

• Travels through Portugal and Spain in 1772 and 1773, London, 1775; the volume contains a print of "Our Lady of the Fish", drawn by Giovanni Battista Cipriani and engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. It appeared the same year in Dublin, and French and German editions were issued the following year.
• Tour in Ireland in 1775, London, 1776, several Irish editions. In the appendix he states he had taken 16 sea voyages and travelled altogether about 27,000 miles. The book was disliked in Ireland. It provoked William Preston to wax satirical in An Heroic Epistle by Donna Teresa Pinna y Ruiz of Murcia, supposedly known to Twiss, and An Heroic Answer from R. Twiss, esq., to Donna Teresa, Dublin, 1776. "Twiss" became or was proposed as rhyming slang for "piss" or chamber pot.
• A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792, London, 1793, also issued in two vols. in Dublin.
• Chess, published anonymously, London, 1787–89, 2 vols.
• Miscellanies, London, 1805, 2 vols.