Recueil de gravures d'après des vases antiques la plus part d'un ouvrage grec trouvés dans les tombeaux dans le royaume des deux Siciles. ... Tirées du cabinet de monsieur le chevalier Hamilton avec des observations sur chacun des vases ...
Sir William Hamilton KB (1730-1803)
Category
Books
Date
1791 - 1795
Materials
Place of origin
Naples
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3048681
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates ; fol. Imperfect: vols. 1-3 only. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: original boards; eighteenth-century quarter red sheep, with marbled paper boards; gold lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Sir William Hamilton KB (1730-1803), author