Viro Revdo. Gulielmo Cole A.M. Rectori de Blechley in Agro Buckingham hoc Monumentum ven: Patris Gulielmi de Luda olim Epi: Elien: sumptibus suis in aere incisum, grato animo D.D.D. Jacobus Bentham / [graphic]

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Title: Viro Revdo. Gulielmo Cole A.M. Rectori de Blechley in Agro Buckingham hoc Monumentum ven: Patris Gulielmi de Luda olim Epi: Elien: sumptibus suis in aere incisum, grato animo D.D.D. Jacobus Bentham / [graphic]
Creator: Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1771]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of the elaborate canopy of the tomb of William of Louth, Bishop of Ely, in Ely Cathedral
Description: Title from dedication in Latin etched below image.
State before "Plate XVII" added in upper left corner.
Date of publication from that of the volume in which a later state of the plate was issued.
Early state of a plate from: Bentham, J. The history and antiquities of the conventual and cathedral church of Ely ... Cambridge [England] : Printed at the University Press by J. Bentham ..., 1771.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 171 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 25.5 x 20 cm
Edition: [State without plate no.].
Language: Latin

Collection Information

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

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Etchings England 1771
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): William, of Louth, -1298.
Cole, William, 1714-1782.
Ely Cathedral
Subject (Topic): Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: William, of Louth, -1298
Cole, William, 1714-1782
Ely Cathedral > Pictorial works
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1771
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13246730
Object ID (OID): 16193237