From Sir William Hamilton's Collection
Not on view
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.
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