Sir William Hamilton, vulcanologist and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, amassed an invaluable collection of ancient Greek vases and sold it to the British Museum in 1772. He commissioned Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville to document it all and the result was a neoclassical masterpiece,...
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Sir William Hamilton, vulcanologist and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, amassed an invaluable collection of ancient Greek vases and sold it to the British Museum in 1772. He commissioned Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville to document it all and the result was a neoclassical masterpiece, reproduced here by TASCHEN in perfect detail.
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