Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples : and with permission dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples

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Description

Title: Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples : and with permission dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples
Alternative Title: Lady Hamilton's attitudes
Creator: Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835
Contributor: Piroli, Tommaso, approximately 1752-1824, associated name.
Published / Created: [October 12th, 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd October 12th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library
Description: Set of 12 engravings depicting Lady Emma Hamilton performing tableaux in Greek costume.
Cover title, on engraved label: Lady Hamilton's attitudes.
A re-engraved imitation of the original plates. The originals engraved by Tommaso Piroli. The title page of this edition has a long ess in the word permission, and there is no period after Hamilton.
May have been issued 1802 or later. Various leaves of plates in both British Art Center copies have a duty stamp dated 1802. In BAC copy 1, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1799; in copy 2, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1802.
Title page and plates printed on stained orange paper; each mounted on larger paper.
Engraved throughout.
BAC : British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 in original wrappers, with engraved title label. Also bears bookseller's label on front cover: "Sold at Dunford's, Great Newport Street, London." Inscribed E. Saunders. Copy 2 also in original wrappers, with engraved title label. The title page for the London, Random & Stainbank, 1800 edition of this work (title: Lady Hamilton's attitudes. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples) has been laid in. This title page was aquatinted by G. Shepheard after F. Rehberg.
Lacking cover title, with engraved label. Two prints with British customs stamps for tinted paper on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Hill-Stone, with James Gillray's A new edition considerably enlarged ...; November 2011.
Extent: [1], XII leaves of plates : 35 cm.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 75 R266 797

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Portraits
Etchings England London 1797
Portrait prints
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Etching
Material: ill. ;
Subject (Name): Hamilton, Emma, 1761?-1815
Subject (Topic): Tableaux
Subjects: Hamilton, Emma, 1761?-1815 > Portraits
Tableaux
England > London > 1797
J. Whatman
Etching > Specimens > 1794
Saunders, E. > Autograph

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 139850
Object ID (OID): 10709008