Reception and artefacts in the making of late eighteenth-century visual culture : the cultural biography of Sir William Hamilton's vases

This doctoral thesis examines the cultural biographies of Sir William Hamilton’s collections of ancient Greek vases, including the ways in which meanings and values were attributed to them. More specifically, this thesis compares various practices of recording, copying and appropriating objects from...

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Main Author: Kalkanis, Emmanouil
Published: Durham University 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559045