Georges DUPLESSIS 2 signed autograph letters Hamilton Gavin and Lady

  
Back from a trip to Italy, he finds the letter from his correspondent and thanks him for the interest shown in his work, likely that published in 1861: History of Engraving in France. Duplessis informs him about an out-of-print work by Robert-Dumesnil (a collector and art historian).

His correspondent tries to clarify a suggestion made by the politician and historian Marcellin Pellet. Duplessis replies: "Gavino Hamilton is a fairly well-known English painter who has the great merit, in our eyes, of having conducted important excavations in Italy and occupies a place as an archaeologist that his paintings could not assign to him. None of the authors who mention the two engravings by Morghen [the engraver Raffaello Morghen], Poetry and Painting, speak of the resemblance of these women to Lady Hamilton, at least to my knowledge.

" He considers it a legend. Duplessis uses the Italianized form of his first name.