The enchantress. Emma, Lady Hamilton. The Jean Kislak collection ... With essays by Martyn Downer, Flora Fraser, Alex Kidson, Michael Nash, [and] Kate Williams

2011 · New York

by Dunkelman, Arthur, editor
New York: The Grolier Club, 2011. 4to, pp. 135, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; pictoril endpapers; fine in original pictotrial wrappers. Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) "was an English maid, model, dancer and actress. She began her career in London's demi-monde, becoming the mistress of a series of wealthy men, culminating in the naval hero Lord Nelson, and was the favourite model of the portrait artist George Romney ... In 1791, at the age of 26, she married Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, where she was a success at court, befriending the queen, a sister of Marie Antoinette, and meeting Nelson" (Wikipedia). (truncated)
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