Botticelli and a Cork connection to Frankenstein

Des O'Sullivan takes a look at the artwork in the frame for auction this week 

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1808) of Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston and Caroline, nee Fitzgerald, Countess of Kingston at Christie's.

It is not every day that a painting by Botticelli comes to auction, and it is not every day that a sale of Old Master drawings features a strong Cork connection and a tenuous but definite link to the monster Frankenstein.

Sandro Botticelli's portrait 'Young Man Holding a Roundel' at Sotheby's.