Ibis Aegyptia. Ubi avis istius natura, cultus, divinique ... [graphic]

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Title: Ibis Aegyptia. Ubi avis istius natura, cultus, divinique ... [graphic]
Creator: Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
Contributor: Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher.
Published / Created: [1745]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Abstract: A statue of an ibis; neck craned backwards, head pointed to the sky; standing on a cylindrical pedestal. After the statute that was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description: 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.
Text "ex aere" is etched at the bottom of the plate.
"Tab. X"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 119 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 and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 25.5 x 19 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.3 x 18.9 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material: etching and engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Antiquities
Sculpture
Ibis
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Antiquities
Sculpture
Ibis
England > London > 1745
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
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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