Sir William Hamilton's 'Antiquities', Set of 4 Aquatint Plates, circa 1770

A C R O T E R I O N is pleased to offer this beautiful set of four original hand-tinted plates of vase scenes from 'Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton His Britannick Maiestys Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples, Vol. IIII' or 'Antiquités Étrusques, Grecques, et Romaines' by Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville (1719 - 1805) and Sir William Hamilton (1730 - 1803) published in Naples by François Morelli between 1769 and 1776, archivally mounted and beautifully presented French matted in ebonized and gilt-wood neoclassical Empire style frames. The plates are a follows: Plate 31: "The Centaur Nessus carries off Deianira" (interior fragment of an Attic kylix), sight 7" x 8", as framed 21.25" x 22.5"; Plate 33: "Satyr and two Maenads" (Attic column-krater), sight 12.4" x 20.5", as framed 23.75" x 31.75"; Plate 36: "Toilet scene: Three women" (Attic hydria), sight 11.5" x 13", as framed 21.25" x 22.5"; Plate 59: "Hermes turns toward Herakles and young man on a quadriga" (Attic bell-krater), sight 12.5" x 21", as framed 23.75" x 31.75".

Literature: Gisler-Huwiler, Madeleine, and Sebastian Schütze. 'The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton'. Köln: Taschen, 2004. pp. 432, 434-5, 438, 466-7.