William Hamilton, R.A. (1751-1801)

Celadon and Amelia, a scene from Thomson's Seasons

細節

William Hamilton, R.A. (1751-1801)
Celadon and Amelia, a scene from Thomson's Seasons
signed and dated 'Wm. Hamilton RA 1799' (on the mount)
pencil and watercolour, with scratching out
12 x 9.7/8 in. (30.4 x 25.1 cm.)

來源

Mr. Sotheby, 1861.
with Abbott & Holder, London.

展覽

Dublin, Royal Dublin Society, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1861, no. 92E.

拍品專文

This watercolour illustrates lines from Thomson's Seasons, which was first published in 1797 by T. Bentley for P.W. Tomkins and later in 1802 for F.J. Du Roveray: 'Young Celadon/and his Amelia were a matchless pair,/With equal virtue formed and equal grace,/The sum, distinguished by their sex alone'. (see H. Hammelmann and T.S.R. Boase, Book Illustrations in Eighteenth Century England, 1975, p. 49).