Aesculapii imago, una cum Telesphoro adjuncto ... [graphic]

Description

Title: Aesculapii imago, una cum Telesphoro adjuncto ... [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: Depiction of a statue of Asclepius, dressed in a toga, with his son Telesphorus at his side; both stand on a low, circular pedestal. This statue 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.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"E marmore"--Below image.
"Tab. XI"--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.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.1 x 19 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Asklepios (Greek deity)
Telesphorus (Greek deity)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Classical antiquities
Sculpture
Subjects: Asklepios (Greek deity)
Telesphorus (Greek deity)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
Sculpture
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: 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.