Bacchante

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Unusual portrait miniature of a lady dressed as a Bacchante,a follower of Dionysus,housed in oval gilt frame with an inscription 'So just the disposition of her soul,Nature left re ason nothing to controul' taken from a poem The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. c.1795. The poem is 'On Lady E.Mansell' neice to the mother of Sir Hervey Elwes. The portrait is possibly Emma Hamilton in the guise of a Bacchante,she was often depicted posing as subjects from mythology. 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches. The Universal Magazine was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent dealing with "Letters, Debates, Essays, Tales, Poetry, History, Biography, Antiquities, Voyages, Travels, Astronomy, Geography, Mathematics, Mechanics, Architecture, Philosophy, Medicine, Chemistry, Husbandry, Gardening and other Arts and Sciences; which may render it Instructive and Entertaining. To which will be added An Impartial Account of Books in several Languages, And of the state of Learning in Europe; also Of the New Theatrical Entertainments." Show more