Elizabeth Caroline Gray

[3][5] Gray became interested in the history of the Etruscans after visiting an exhibition of their artefacts in London organised by Domenico Campanari in 1837.

[6] She pursued the subject on a visit to Italy in 1837–1839, drawing on contacts in German and Italian archaeological circles.

In an 1844 review of her work, Samuel Ferguson[7] remarked that "any deep or earnest investigation of matters connected with the social institution of a gentile nation is not properly within the female province.

[9] Other than her research on Etruria, Gray wrote a work on the classical and early medieval church and empire, and two popular children's histories of Rome.

It included an unusual red-and-black Etruscan amphora in an Italo-Geometric style, known as the "Hamilton Gray vase".