Antiquités étrusques, grecques, et romaines tirées du cabinet du M. William Hamilton
By: Pierre d'Hancarville
Contributors: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803; Bracci, Giuseppe
Publisher: W. Hamilton; Imprimé a Naples par F. Morelli
Published: 1766
Place of publication: Naples
Language: fre; eng
Translated from: fre
Subjects: Art collections; Etruscan Vases; Vases, Greco-Roman; Greek Vases; Vase-painting; Greek Sculpture; Classical antiquities
Other titles: Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton.; Recueil d'antiquités etrusques, grecques, et romaines.
Notes: Colored title in English and French on facing pages.  English reads: Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton ....  Running title in French, v. 1-2: Recueil d'antiquités etrusques, grecques, et romaines.

Text in French and English, v. 1-2.  Vol. 3-4 only t.p.s and preliminary discourse in English.

Preface, v. 1, signed: D'Hancarville.

Colophon, v. 1: Imprimé a Naples par François Morelli.

Included in plate count of 130 in each vol. are oversize initials, engravings in text, vignettes, all in bistre in v. 4; t.p.s, dedicatory and laudatory preliminary pages.  In each vol. there are over 100 leaves of plates, some folded, those showing vase paintings in color.  Only some of the plates in v. 1 are titled or described, chiefly in v. 2.  Hancarville credits G. Bracci, one of the principal illustrators, with the innovative scale system showing size and shape of vases.

Engravings by A. Cardon, C. Nolli, C. Pignatari, Dufrenoi after G. Bracci, F. de Grado, E. and R. Beaulieu, G.B. Tierce, A. Lamberti.

Text in v. 1: Of the origins of the Etruscans and of their letters --  v. 2: Preliminary discourse upon painting, etc.; Of the general uses the ancients made of their vases; Where, when by whom they were made; How they are found; Of the manner of painting them -- v. 3-4: Histoire de la sculture et de la statuaire des Grecs.

Includes bibliographical references, and errata.