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| Keywords: Cognocenti-Antique-Gillray.jpeg A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique Js Gillray ”invt ” fect SUMMARY An elderly Sir William Hamilton inspecting his antiquities all of which refer to his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and her lover Lord Horatio Nelson In the background hang four pictures on the wall Cleopatra a picture of Lady Hamilton with her breasts exposed holding a gin bottle; Mark Anthony Lord Nelson with a sea battle in background an erupting volcano; and a portrait of Hamilton facing away from the other paintings MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London H Humphrey 1801 Feby 11th According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 462 A portrait of the celebrated antiquary and diplomatist whose lady figures in the preceding print It is not difficult to guess the allusions in many of the articles he is contemplating Lady Hamilton as Cleopatra and Nelson as Mark Antony with himself in the character of Claudius ”he was a great lover of the table ”are the pictures which adorn the walls She is represented in the character of Cleopatra in Boydell's Plates to Shakespeare Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8796 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08796u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white point adjust black level rotated cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1801-02-11 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g08796 PD-old-100 James Gillray 1801 cartoons Caricatures of the United Kingdom Antiques William Hamilton diplomat | ||||
