Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]

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Title: Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]
Alternative Title: Vetus aquilae signum in aedibus Horatii Walpole Londini
Marble eagle on a plinth
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Wale, Samuel, -1786, artist.
Published / Created: [1755?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a plinth decorated with satyr's heads, garlands, eagles and a plaque inscribed "Diis. manibvs. m. lvccei. m. et d. l. martialis vixit annis xviii m. lvcceius m. i. optatvs et lvcceia m. i. hebene filio. pio et. sibi. fecervnt".
Description: Title in Latin engraved in image.
Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print.
Copy of: Marble eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli ... on a handsome antique sepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. From the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ...
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
For further information, consult library staff.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 37 x 26 cm, on sheet 53.9 x 39.3 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Etchings England London 1755
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Eagles
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Eagles
England > London > 1755
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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