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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Dec 4, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School | 184 | $****** - ****** | HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) – HUGUES, Pierre-François, called d'Hancarville (1719-1805). Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton. Naples. |
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'Edition splendide et de grand luxe' (Cohen-de Ricci) of this catalogue of the first collection of vases formed by Sir William Hamilton while British Plenipotentiary to Naples. Having purchased in 1766 the Porcinari collection of Greek (then considered Etruscan) vases, Hamilton quickly added to it other important specimens of ancient vases, coins, bronzes, glass and terracotta. The British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities then acquired the collection in 1772 for £8,400. Although the first two volumes are dated 1766 and 1767 respectively, these dates are now thought to have been falsified in order to hide d'Hancarville's plagiarism of Octavian Guasco, whose own work was published in 1768 (see I. Jenkins & K. Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes, Sir William Hamilton and his Collection, London: British Museum, 1996, pp. 51 and 99). Publication of volumes III-IV was interrupted when d'Hancarville was expelled from Naples, and the plates seized by his creditors. Blackmer 845; Brunet I, 321; Cohen-de Ricci 474; Berlin Kat. 890; RIBA 1568; Vinet 1528.
Parallel text in French and English, 2 hand-coloured engraved titles in each volume, 2 engraved dedications, 212 (of 219) etched and engraved plates by Lamberti and Pignatari after Beaulieu, Bracci, Cardon, Nolli and Tierce, many hand-coloured, some double-page, engraved head-pieces and initials (lacking 7 plates; vol. 1 pl. 119 rubbed, pl. 53 in vol. I with 160mm tear into image, and tiny marginal hole in plate mark to pl. 127; vol. II leaves g2-h1 with some nicks and dust-soiling to fore-edges, pl. 39 with tiny hole in middle of plate but not affecting image, pl. 50 with 30mm hole in middle of image, p. 72 with pencil juvenilia to image; both vols with occasional light spotting and marginal finger-soiling). 19th-century red half morocco, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped).
