Venus sleeping in the cabinet at Houghton / [graphic]

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Title: Venus sleeping in the cabinet at Houghton / [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
Abstract: "In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat."
Text below title: The same size as the picture.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 138 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 : oval image 23.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Reproductions
Stipple engravings England London 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Venus (Roman deity),
Subjects: Venus (Roman deity)
England > London > 1785
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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