[Altar to Vespasian, with inscription] [art original].

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Title: [Altar to Vespasian, with inscription] [art original].
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: A drawing of the Roman sepulchral altar that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill. The side of the altar bears an image in bas-relief of a man sacrificing; below the image is the inscription "TI. CLAVDIVS AVG. L. DOCILIS AEDITVS AEDIS FORTVNAE TVLLIANAE." An area at the top of the drawing is labeled "To be restored," and on the left and bottom edges are written the altar's height and width in feet. A bust of Vespasian, from the collection of Cardinal Ottoboni, stood on this altar
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; attribution to Horace Walpole from curator.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted on page 112 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: Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 17.2 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9-79,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Classical antiquities
Altars
Sacrifices
Subjects: Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9-79
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
Altars
Sacrifices
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horace Walpole, Altar to Vespasian, with Inscription. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.