dunkelman arthur editor (1 Ergebnisse)

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).