Author: Ian Jenkins
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Vases & Volcanoes
Author: Ian Jenkins
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Fields of Fire
Author: David Constantine
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842125816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The life of Sir William Hamilton is rich in contradictions: hedonist, scholar and an aesthete with a Rabelaisian streak, he represented the epitome of honourable public service until, as the eighteenth century drew to its climax, his personal life and career were flung into freefall when he became involved in the most scandalous menage a trois of the century. After several years as a soldier, courtier and MP, he turned to the diplomatic world and, in 1764, was sent to Naples as Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. There Hamilton could indulge the two passions: volcanoes and vases. His observations of Vesuvius earned him a Fellowship of the Royal Society. His collection of vases was eventually acquired by the British Museum. Yet, for most people, William Hamilton is not remembered as a diplomat, art-collector and scholar but as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, mistress of the heroic Lord Nelson. Using the substantial correspondence between them and, for the first time, Hamilton's unpublished notebooks, David Constantine throws new light on the relationship between Sir William and the relentlessly self-improving Emma.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842125816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The life of Sir William Hamilton is rich in contradictions: hedonist, scholar and an aesthete with a Rabelaisian streak, he represented the epitome of honourable public service until, as the eighteenth century drew to its climax, his personal life and career were flung into freefall when he became involved in the most scandalous menage a trois of the century. After several years as a soldier, courtier and MP, he turned to the diplomatic world and, in 1764, was sent to Naples as Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. There Hamilton could indulge the two passions: volcanoes and vases. His observations of Vesuvius earned him a Fellowship of the Royal Society. His collection of vases was eventually acquired by the British Museum. Yet, for most people, William Hamilton is not remembered as a diplomat, art-collector and scholar but as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, mistress of the heroic Lord Nelson. Using the substantial correspondence between them and, for the first time, Hamilton's unpublished notebooks, David Constantine throws new light on the relationship between Sir William and the relentlessly self-improving Emma.
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honourable William Hamilton
Author: William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337196660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honourable William Hamilton is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1766. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337196660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honourable William Hamilton is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1766. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Campi Phlegraei
Author: William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781619811058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
[3-Volume Set]. Vols. I & II + supplement. ARCHIVAL REPRINT: LIMITED EDITION. [Naples: Peter Fabris; 1776].
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781619811058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
[3-Volume Set]. Vols. I & II + supplement. ARCHIVAL REPRINT: LIMITED EDITION. [Naples: Peter Fabris; 1776].
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Outlines from the Figures and Compositions Upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir William Hamilton
Author: Sir William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vases, Etruscan
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vases, Etruscan
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790
Author: John Ingamells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
Author: Sir William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Beloved Emma
Author: Flora Fraser
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times 'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times 'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
The Volcano Lover
Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.