[Two helmets] [graphic]

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Title: [Two helmets] [graphic]
Creator: Hamilton, John, active 1766-1787, printmaker
Contributor: Hooper, S. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. March 1, 1785, for S. Hooper
Abstract: Plate showing two helmets, one engraved above the other. The helmet at top, numbered "1" above, is a Venetian Morion shown in profile, with the figure of Acteon visible at its center immediately under the crest. The helmet at bottom, numbered "2" above, is of the burgonet kind
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Imperfect; only the helmet engraved at top of plate is present, with the rest of the sheet trimmed away. Description based on more perfect impression.
"Pl. 3."
Plate from: Grose, F. A treatise on ancient armour and weapons. London : Printed for S. Hooper, 1785 [1786].
Mounted on page 72 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Note in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page: V. Appendix, page 96.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.2 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1785
Engravings England London 1785
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Armor
Helmets
Subjects: Armor
Helmets
England > London > 1785
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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