[Apollo] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Apollo] [graphic]
Creator: Bisschop, Jan de, 1628-1671, printmaker
Contributor: Donker, Pieter, 1635-1668, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1670]
Publication Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The Apollo Belvedere facing left seen from the front."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
First three letters of the name "P.P. Doncker" in artist's signature form a monogram.
Signed with the monogram of printmaker Jan de Bisschop. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1901,1022.2531.5.
Place and date of publication from the volume in which the print was published.
Plate from: Signorvm vetervm icones. [Amsterdam], [167-?].
Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner.
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 : plate mark 23.3 x 16 cm, on sheet 24.1 x 16 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings Netherlands Amsterdam 1670
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Apollo (Deity),
Subject (Topic): Sculpture
Subjects: Apollo (Deity)
Sculpture
Netherlands > Amsterdam > 1670
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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