Italian Hand Colored Engraving by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Based on the Original Collection of Sir William Hamilton's Ancient Vases

A youth in a winged chariot holds out a shallow dish, flanked by a cloaked traveler and a woman with a torch.

This hand colored engraving, based on the original collection of Sir William Hamilton's ancient vases, is after Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, from Naples, Italy, around 1791, in ink on paper. Hamilton, the British envoy at Naples, assembled one of the great collections of Greek painted pottery, recorded in plates drawn under Tischbein's direction. Orange figures stand out against a solid black ground in imitation of red-figure ware. The seated youth carries a scepter, his chariot wheel and wing rendered in white. The image is 11 inches wide and 7 high.

Ancient manners, faithfully copied and politely colored in.