Attributed to Pierre-Francois Hugues Chevalier de Hancarville (French 1719-1790), plate 45 from book 2 of The Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton 1767, depicting a scene from an Apulian kalyx krater today in the Museo Gregoriano Etrusco in the Vatican of "Eros Flying between Zeus and Aphrodite above Europa Garlanding the Bull with Dionysus, Eros, and Maenads on the right", 151-2 in. x 251-2 in. E1500-2000 Note: Sir William Hamilton represented the acme of the English interest in the Grand Tour. As a diplomat, connnoisseur, and amateur scientist Hamilton began collecting while serving as British Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Hamilton's interests in ancient art centered on pottery, traditionally dismissed as a minor fabric compared to sculpture, engraved gems, and coinage. Hamilton's collection stood out from those created by the local Neapolitans such as Felicia Mastrilli as it was the first of its kind in size and significance to have been amassed by an Englishman who not only bought from antiquarians, but who also excavated himself. Hamilton's publication with its simple yet elegant folio engravings revolutionized art and fashions of the time, creating a contemporary craze for Etruscan art as John Flaxman imitated the technique in his illustrations for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, while Robert Adam designed wall-paintings, furniture, and tapestries in the so-called "Etruscan taste" for a room at Osterley Park in 1775, and even Josiah Wedgwood went so far as to name his newest porcelain factory at Newcastle-under-Lyme, "Etruria" in 1769.