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![[William Richard Hamilton.] WRHamilton Sec. Soc. Del 1830-1858 [facsimile signature].](jpegs/59702.jpg)
[William Richard Hamilton.] WRHamilton Sec. Soc. Del 1830-1858 [facsimile signature].
H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59702] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59702] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Richard Hamilton.]](jpegs/59701.jpg)
[William Richard Hamilton.]
[H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, proof before letters and facsmile signature on backing sheet. Chine collé 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59701] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, proof before letters and facsmile signature on backing sheet. Chine collé 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59701] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![G.B. Maule [facsimile signature]](jpegs/35009.jpg)
G.B. Maule [facsimile signature] Died at Oropesa, in Spain, on the Fourteenth of September 1850. / From his friends to his Family.
Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by Francis Holl
Stipple engraving on india, with very large margins, platemark 400 x 320mm (15¾ x 12½"). Private plate.
George Benjamin Maule (1811-50), barrister. An inveterate traveller, Maule was travelling across Spain in treacherous conditions when his stagecoach was swept off of the road, killing Maule and his fellow travellers.
O'D 1 (only likeness)
[Ref: 35009] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by Francis Holl
Stipple engraving on india, with very large margins, platemark 400 x 320mm (15¾ x 12½"). Private plate.
George Benjamin Maule (1811-50), barrister. An inveterate traveller, Maule was travelling across Spain in treacherous conditions when his stagecoach was swept off of the road, killing Maule and his fellow travellers.
O'D 1 (only likeness)
[Ref: 35009] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)