Pictura antiqua, ex supulchri veteris pariete, Romae excisa ... [graphic]

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Title: Pictura antiqua, ex supulchri veteris pariete, Romae excisa ... [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 an antique painting in fresco. Six figures either sit or stand and the head of a seventh figure, surrounded by ornamentation, is above them. This painting 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 within plate mark.
"Tab. I"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 180 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 18.1 x 21 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 : sheet 18.1 x 21 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Reproductions
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: 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

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