He sees what thousands of artists would have
liked to express realized before him in movements
and surprising trans- formations ��� standing, kneeling, sitting, reclining, serious, sad, playful, ecstatic,
contrite, alluring, threatening, anxious, one pose
follows another without a break.
In short, Goethe breathlessly concludes, ���this much is
certain: as a performance it���s like nothing you ever saw
before in your life.���
Title page of
Hamilton���s
volume.
I acquired the twelve engravings of the dancing
and supplicating Emma not quite by accident. Long
an admirer of the four volumes of engraved vases that
Hamilton published, I was delighted to see that one of
the print shops that flourished in London in the 1980s
had most of the engravings for sale. What I wanted,
HYLAND
