[Brass seal of Henrietta Maria] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[Brass seal of Henrietta Maria] [graphic]
Creator
Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
Published / Created
[between 1745 and 1802]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"The brass seal of Henrietta Maria; one face above showing the Queen full-length directed slightly to left holding sceptre and orb, under a canopy with crests to either side and lettered around the rim 'Henretta [sic] Mariae Dei Gratiae Angliae Scotiae Fraunciae [sic] Et Hiberniae Reginae'; below, a face showing a crest in a diamond surmounted by a crown and supported on the left by a crowned lion, on the right by St. Michael, lettered around the rim in the same way."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title deviser by cataloger.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1856,0712.872.
Plate from: Vetvsta monvmenta. Londini : [publisher not identified], 1747-1906.
Text in upper right corner of plate: Vol. V, pl. XXIV, p. 283.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from upper right corner. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 67 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance
Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent
1 print : sheet 22.9 x 12.5 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material
etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669.
Subjects
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669
England > London > 1745
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > 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
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12701934
Object ID (OID)
16193421

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