Lot 144
144
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The Poet, a fan, the leaf painted with Cupid offering a garland of flowers to Anthony Hamilton, the poet, the reserves painted with figures by a river with ruins beyond and with figures by a waterfall, the verso with a sprig of rosebuds, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with a lady, two dogs and urns - 8.5in. (21cm), late 18th century

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The Poet, a fan, the leaf painted with Cupid offering a garland of flowers to Anthony Hamilton, the poet, the reserves painted with figures by a river with ruins beyond and with figures by a waterfall, the verso with a sprig of rosebuds, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with a lady, two dogs and urns - 8.5in. (21cm), late 18th century
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Lot Essay

Taken from an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after Angelica Kauffman made for the second volume of Hammond's Poems, published by John Bell, 22 November 1781. It illustrated one of Hammond's Love Elegies dedicated to Mr. George Greville
Lot 159 is painted with the same subject.

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