[Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
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16704451
Description
- Title
- [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
- Creator
- Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1732]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
- Description
-
Title devised by curator.
Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page.
Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33. - Provenance
- Given by Mrs. Anne Damer to Sir Wathen Waller. Later owned by John Hely-Hutchinson, with his bookplate on verso of first flyleaf of volume. Sold Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (Hely-Hutchinson Sale), lot 584, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : circular sheet 21 cm, mounted to 29.4 x 23 cm
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title
- Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Collection Date
- Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Poetry
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century - Material
- brown ink and wash ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Rome
- Subject (Name)
-
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,
Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, - Subject (Topic)
-
Social life and customs
Agriculture
Rites & ceremonies
Views - Subjects
-
Rome > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800
Dionysus (Greek deity) > Poetry
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo
Agriculture
Rites & ceremonies
Views
British > 19th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ownership
Waller, Wathen, Sir > Ownership
Hely-Hutchinson, John Walter, 1882-1955 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Bernard Lens, Wheel with 12 Sections Showing Roman Scenes. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13825099
- Object ID (OID)
- 16704451