As Romanorum libralis, ejusque partes. Ubi de aeris fignandi auctore ... [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- As Romanorum libralis, ejusque partes. Ubi de aeris fignandi auctore ... [graphic]
- Creator
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
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Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1745]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Abstract
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Depiction of seven Roman weights(?), numbered in Roman numerals from I to VII. The sides of the circular objects bear pictures of various heads, beasts, objects and symbols. Three of the objects have their obverse and reverse depicted side by side, the two faces connected with a horizontal double line. All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description
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Title from index on signature A of volume.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears.
Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Ex aere" etched in lower center, below object numbered "VI".
"Tab. XVIII"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 94 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 23 x 19 cm
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
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Classical antiquities
Weights & measures - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
Weights & measures
England > London > 1745
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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13208661
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193091
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