"The Lord Hamilton [...] has found the acme of delight both in nature and in art in the person of a beautiful girl. He keeps her in his home. She is a young Englishwoman of about twenty years, truly beautiful and well formed. He has had them make her a Greek costume that suits her marvelously: thus dressed, she lets her down her hair, takes two or three shawls, and she knows how to lend such variety to her poses, to her gestures, and to her expressions, that you end up really believing you are dreaming. That which many artists would be glad to express, in her appears complete, brimming with life and a surprising variety. [...] The old Lord finds in her all the statues of Antiquity, all the fine profiles of Sicilian coins, and even the Apollo of Belvedere."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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