From Sir William Hamilton's Collection
James Gillray|Hannah Humphrey|Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson|Sir William Hamilton
May 8, 1801 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints
This caricature of Admiral Horatio Nelson gives the subject a vase-shaped body and shows him from behind, standing upon a chipped base. His wig has been turned into the lid. The image was once thought to represent William Hamilton but recent scholarship has convincingly established that it actually shows Nelson, who was a close friend of Hamilton's and became the lover of the latter's wife, Lady Emma Hamilton.
- Artist
- James Gillray|Hannah Humphrey|Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson|Sir William Hamilton
- Date
- May 8, 1801
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Philip van Ingen, 1942
