The exposition of Cyrus in the gallery at Houghton / [graphic]

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Description

Title
The exposition of Cyrus in the gallery at Houghton / [graphic]
Creator
Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Contributor
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 September 1781]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1781, by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Abstract

"Woodland scene with a naked young boy lying on a cloth in the foreground, guarded by dogs; to right, a herdsman and a woman, presumably Mithridates and his wife Cyno, surprised at the sight; to left, a curved stone frieze of soldiers, surmounted by a crown and a naked child holding up a shield; to right, a boy looking on from behind Mithridates' sheep; fields and cattle in the background at centre."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state

Description
Title etched below image, above and on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat."
Text below title: Six of the picture 2 f. 4 1/4 i. by 3 f. 6 1/2 i. long.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 151 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 28.3 x 37 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Mezzotints England London 1781
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
Subjects
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
England > London > 1781
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13233002
Object ID (OID)
16193200

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