Lot 21B
Artist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (German, 1751-1829), Plate 26, from William Hamilton's (born Scotland 1730, died England 1803) "Peintures des Vases Antiques de la Collection de Son Excellence Mr. Le Chevalier Hamilton. . . . . Four volumes in French and Italian." Florence: Societa Calcographica, 1802. A hand colored engraving depicting four lovely Grecian maidens, one holding a mirror or patera, one standing between a pair of lionesses, a swan perched upon a pedestal, a fan and various elements in the field, inspired by imagery on an ancient vase(s) created by Johann Tischbein, a German artist whose friendship with J.W. von Goethe led him to pursue Neoclassicism. Sir William Hamilton was a British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples during the period of Naples' "Golden Age" who was fascinated by the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as an avid collector of classical antiquities, especially Greek vases. Set in a nice portfolio. Size: 22" L x 17" W (55.9 cm x 43.2 cm)
After amassing and publishing fine illustrations of his first "Cabinet of Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities," Sir William Hamilton sold the renowned collection to the British Museum, and began afresh to develop a second, similar collection. The first collection remains one of the MuseumÂ’s greatest treasures. Hamilton authored and published his "Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases" based on this second collection, between 1791 and 1795. This publication and WedgwoodÂ’s works on ceramics influenced John Flaxman and Henry Fuseli as well as many other European artists. These engravings are illustrations from the first Florentine edition of "Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases". Part of this group of vases was lost during HamiltonÂ’s hasty escape from Naples upon the invasion of the French in 1798; the remainder was eventually sold en masse to Englishman, Thomas Hope. Though Hope offered Hamilton less than he planned to receive, he promised to keep the vases together, for the study of artists and students of history, as Hamilton had always intended.
Provenance: private Denver, Colorado, USA collection
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- Condition: Some staining / foxing in the margins that does not interfere with the imagery. Please note that the prints are all "original," meaning that they were printed from copper plates which were made by hand (that is not machine made) and they were printed at the time noted.
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