3959737 Portrait of Lady Hester Stanhope, (litho). by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1776 ??1839) was a British socialite, adventurer and traveler. Her archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archaeology. Her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists";); Prismatic Pictures ; English, out of copyright.