Venus of Medicis [graphic]

Description

Title: Venus of Medicis [graphic]
Creator: Thornthwaite, J., 1740?- printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1771 and 1795]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication based on printmaker's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 140 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 15.8 x 9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1771
Engravings England London 1771
Pictorial works
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Aphrodite (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic): Classical antiquities
Sculpture
Subjects: Aphrodite (Greek deity)
England > London > 1771
Classical antiquities > Pictorial works
Sculpture
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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