Sir
William Hamilton
(1730-1803) and Pierre Francois Hugues d'
Hancarville,(1719-1805) . Etruscan Antiquities, Published
Naples:by Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving, hand-coloured
in red and black.by Hugues d'Hancarville titled Collection of
Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités
Etrusques,
Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du Cabinet de M. Hamilton.
Sir
William Hamilton was the British ambassador to Naples during the
city's golden age, from 1764 to 1800. An avid antiquarian, Hamilton
assembled one of the world's finest collections of Greek and Roman
antiquities. The core of his collection was bought en bloc from the
Porcinari family, after an introduction by Hugues d'Hancarville, an
amateur art dealer. Hamilton added several more choice items before
selling the entire collection to the British Museum in 1772 for
£8400, where it became one of main collections in the
department of
Greek and Roman antiquities. However, before the collection was
shipped to England, Hamilton arranged for Hugues d'Hancarville to
oversee the cataloguing and drawing of every item. The published
work appeared in 1766-1767 and is a triumphant example of graphic
art of the highest order: the present image is one of the
results.
In addition
to his duties as ambassador,
Hamilton was also renowned as a knowledgeable guide and congenial
host to the visiting English 'Grand Tourists'. With infectious
enthusiasm he would extol the wonders of Naples and the beauties of
arts of the ancient world, inspiring in many of his aristocratic
visitors a genuine love of the antique. This new-found enthusiasm,
fuelled by images such as the present engraving, found its
expression in the new style of neo-classicism and in the
collections of antiquities which found their way to many of the
stately homes of England. These items are framed and £165
each delivered less of course if
collected
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Plate 1
Sir
William Hamilton (1730-1803) and Pierre
Francois
Hugues d' Hancarville,(1719-1805) . Etruscan Antiquities,
Published Naples:by Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving,
hand-coloured in red and black.by Hugues d'Hancarville titled
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités
Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du
Cabinet de M. Hamilton.These
items are framed
and £165 each delivered less of course if
collected
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Plate
2
Sir
William Hamilton (1730-1803) and Pierre
Francois
Hugues d' Hancarville,(1719-1805) . Etruscan Antiquities,
Published Naples:by Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving,
hand-coloured in red and black.by Hugues d'Hancarville titled
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités
Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du
Cabinet de M. Hamilton.These
items are framed
and £165 each delivered less of course if
collected
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Plate
3
Sir
William Hamilton (1730-1803) and Pierre
Francois
Hugues d' Hancarville,(1719-1805) . Etruscan Antiquities,
Published Naples:by Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving,
hand-coloured in red and black.by Hugues d'Hancarville titled
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités
Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du
Cabinet de M. Hamilton.These
items are framed
and £165 each delivered less of course if
collected
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Sileni Icuncula ex Aere/ Lampas Antiqua ex aere
from ' Vetusta Monumenta: Quae Ad Rerum Britannicarum
Memoriam Conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini Sumptu Suo Edenda
Curavit.' Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Volumes
I-V are compilations of plates published earlier over a period of
years: almost all plates carry the publisher's imprint of the Society
of Antiquaries of London and a succession of publication dates (Vol. I:
1718-1747; Vol. II: 1748-1789; Vol. III 1790-1796; Vol. V:
1816-1835).This plate is from volume 2 showing
chiefly Roman, Romanesque and Gothic antiquities and monuments in
Britain, with some views and plans of buildings. signed by
draughtsmen or source-artists Arthurus Pond dated March 1757
full page £85 inc delivery x2
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Outline copper
engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano ( 1744
to 17920 ) by Georg Christoph Kilian,1709-1781
Georg
Christoph
Kilian,1709-1781 followed an apprenticeship with his father
with the traditional years of travel, visiting Nuremberg and
Hungary and working for a period in Vienna, where he studied the
art of the Old Masters. He returned to Augsburg and established
himself there, enjoying a high reputation in the literary and
artistic circles of his time.
He
worked both as a talented
artist and as an historian, art collector and biographer of other
artists. Apart from his renowned natural history collection, Kilian
had a well-chosen art library and above all a comprehensive
graphics collection, comprising engravings, woodcarvings and
drawings.
He
collected in particular the
works of his own family. He himself also engraved portraits of his
ancestors and family for the collection. The latter, bound in six
volumes, now forms an important part of the Augsburg Staats- &
Stadtbibliothek, to which he bequeathed it, along with the majority
of his collection of 16000 engravings & prints in
1781.
His
cartographic works included
the Supplement to the Atlas Curieux [1738]; Kleiner Atlas [1757],
Kriegs Atlas [1758], Theat. Guerre Allemagne - 61 maps [1760],
America Septentrionalis [1760]
Le
Antichita di Ercolano (The
Antiquities of Heculaneum) was a collection of images of
archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of
Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period from 1744 to
1792 as the excavations continued. Many different artists and
archeologists of the day worked on it. The Roman cities of Pompeii
and Herculaneum were burried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on
the morning of 25 August, 79 AD. It was not until 1709 that the
city of Herculaneum was discovered when a peasant digging a well on
his property was astonished to uncover large slabs of inscribed
marble.
Measurements:.
. most
plate-mark: 15 3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
£35
each
post inclusive any defects will be noted
per image
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Outline copper engraved plates
of classical
antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/ Antiquities of
Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg Christoph
Kilian,1709-1781 Full page . most plate-mark: 15 3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19
1/2" x 14 1/4" .From a later
edition pl1
£15 cropped page
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Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14 1/4"
From
another edition
pl2 £15 cropped page
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Tom II TAB XLVII . . Roman
Interior with wall paintings
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
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Tom II TAB XLI some creasing From the
printing ! some
offsetting Roman Interior with
wall paintings
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
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Roman
Interior with wall
paintings
Tom II TAB XLVI some SOFT creasing From the
printing !
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
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Roman
Interior with wall
paintings
Tom II TAB XLIII some creasing From the
printing !
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
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Roman Interior with wall paintings
Tom II TAB XLVIII some creasing From the
printing ! some
offsetting
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14
1/4"
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Roman Interior with wall paintings
Outline copper engraved
plates of classical antiquities, from Antichita di Ercolano/
Antiquities of Herculaneum ( 1744 to 17920 ) by Georg
Christoph Kilian,1709-1781 Full
page . most plate-mark: 15
3/4" x 11" . . . sheet: 19 1/2" x 14 1/4" Most
show Roman Interior with wall
paintings or
staues etc all drawn during the excavation £35
each
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