Snuff box, 18th century (414:1534-1885)

Oblong snuff box, enamel on copper, transfer-printed in purple and painted in polychrome enamels, and gilded. On the lid is a landscape copied from an engraving by William Woollett, after a drawing by himself of "A View of the West Side of the Island, in the Garden of the Honourable Charles Hamilton, Esq., at Painshill, near Cobham, in Surrey."

In the landscape, a lady and gentleman are seen fishing from a wooden bridge over an arm of a lake on which are two swans, and, farther away, a party in a boat; to the right are two fir trees. The painting is surrounded by raised scrollwork in white and gold on an apple-green ground. Round the sides are sprays of flowers in colours, in panels similarly enclosed by raised gilt scrolls and reserved on a green ground. Inside the lid is a print in purple of a shepherd kneeling beside a shepherdess who sits leaning her elbow on the edge of a monumental fountain with a basket at her feet; a boy peeps at them from behind a tree trunk, and a flock of sheep are seen in a fold in the background.

With concave sides and a chased gilt metal mount.