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Sir William Hamilton, vulcanologist and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, amassed an invaluable collection of ancient Greek vases, sold to the British Museum in 1772. He commissioned Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville to document the pieces before they were shipped to London: the result was a neoclassical masterpiece, reproduced here by...
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