Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini / [graphic]

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16193138

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Title
Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini / [graphic]
Alternative Title
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum
Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
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 pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles

Description
Title in Latin engraved in image.
Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
Mounted on page 109 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.
1 print : etching ; sheet 36.9 x 26.1 cm.
Laid paper. Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance
Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 36.8 x 26 cm, on sheet 54 x 39 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Engravings England London 1755
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic)
Antiquities in art
Eagles
Subjects
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Antiquities in art
Eagles
England > London > 1755
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
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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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9738829
Object ID (OID)
16193138

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