I. Libelli veteris sive pugillaris, operculum eburneum, in sepulchro antiquo repertum ... [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- I. Libelli veteris sive pugillaris, operculum eburneum, in sepulchro antiquo repertum ... [graphic]
- Creator
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
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Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1745]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Abstract
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Depiction of three antiquarian objects, each with Roman numeral numbering above. These include ivory covers of a Roman pocket-book (I); a bronze statue of a sacrificing priest (II); and a bronze statue of a bagpiper (III). All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description
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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.
"Ex ebore" etched below object numbered "I"; "ex aere" etched twice, once beside object numbered "II" and once beside object numbered "III".
"Tab. IX"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 145 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 26.1 x 18.8 cm.
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 26.1 x 18.8 cm
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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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)
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Classical antiquities
Sculpture - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
Sculpture
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
Access And Usage Rights
- 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12801905
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193191
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