Melancholy remembrances - Jacobite Virtuosi

Introduction
Hypogaei by James Byres
Funeral of Maria Clementina
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Paintings
Ganymede
St Cecilia
James Byres of Tonley
Portrait of James Byres
Dancing Cherubs
Hypogaei by James Byres
Piranesi plate dedicated to Byres
Head of child
Capriccio
Designs for King's College by James Byres
James Irvine of Drum
Sulphurs
Vases
Museo Pio Clementino
Statuette of Osiris
Melancholy remembrances
Acknowledgements

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Melancholy remembrances: tears and ashes

Grand tour purchases from Italy included natural curiosities and contemporary intarsio work as well as antiquities: this group of melancholy objects, many from the Campanian territories of volcanoes and excavations comprises ancient tear-bottles and a cinerary urn as well as a pietra dura picture of Vesuvius and volcanic ashes from its eruption.