A selection from an album that contains drawings and counterproofs of Etruscan vases, jugs and amphorae. Graphite, red chalk and pen and ink with various watermarks and created by an associate of the artist Sir William Hamilton (1703-1803). Currently up for bid at Christies from whose website these are taken. Auctioned off by Christies in 1809.

Art book/folio, British, Drawings and sketches, English 1 Minute
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Etruscan ceramic with decorations. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-british-drawings-watercolours/associate-sir-william-hamilton-henley-on-thames-1730-1803-london-50/91911
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Etruscan ceramic with decorations. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-british-drawings-watercolours/associate-sir-william-hamilton-henley-on-thames-1730-1803-london-50/91911
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Etruscan ceramic with decorations. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-british-drawings-watercolours/associate-sir-william-hamilton-henley-on-thames-1730-1803-london-50/91911
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Etruscan ceramic with decorations. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-british-drawings-watercolours/associate-sir-william-hamilton-henley-on-thames-1730-1803-london-50/91911
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Etruscan ceramic with decorations. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-british-drawings-watercolours/associate-sir-william-hamilton-henley-on-thames-1730-1803-london-50/91911

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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