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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 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" From another edition pl1 £15
cropped page From another edition pl2 £15
cropped page Tom II TAB XLVII . .
Tom II TAB XLI some creasing From the
printing ! some offsetting
Tom II TAB XLVI some SOFT creasing From
the printing ! Tom II TAB XLIII some creasing From the
printing ! Tom II TAB XLVIII some creasing From
the printing ! some
offsetting |
Architectural
& Classical Architecture
William
Green
of Ambleside.
Johannes
Kip.
. .Brittania Illustrata,
Oxonia
Illustrata./David
Loggan
Wilkinson/Select
Views
.Lake District
Sir
Henry
Alken..+
Sports
Gillray
..Cartoons
Humerous.Political....
pre 1830
Humerous.Political.......
post 1830
Encyclopedie
.
.Scientific.
Etchings.signed
in pencil
Etchings.
signed in plate only
Etchings.non
uk subjects
Engravings...larger
plate
.Colour
Woodcuts
. . mainly Deco
Wood
engravings.
. mainly Deco
Sonnerat
. .Indian watercolours
Extra's
. . Specials Odds
Prints,...
by Subject
Birds.
engravings
Birds..Cage
& Aviary
Birds.
Morris
.
Razorbill - Yellow Shanks
Fish
prints /Jonathan
Couch
Prints,...
by Illustrator
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