[Medal of Marc Anthony] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Medal of Marc Anthony] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Medal of Marc Antony
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of a gold medal of Mark Anthony. The obverse, comprising the left half of the design, bears his head in profile to the right with Latin text around the edge. The reverse, comprising the right half of the design, bears the head of Octavia, also in profile to the right and also surrounded by Latin text
Description: Title devised by curator.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Horace Walpole kept an example of this medal in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 90 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.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 50 mm
Language: Latin

Genre: Etchings England 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.,
Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Medals
Subjects: Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.
Octavia, -11 B.C.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Medals
England > 1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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