Figurae in fundo, lateribusque ollae depictae ... [graphic]

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Description

Title
Figurae in fundo, lateribusque ollae depictae ... [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

Figures painted on the bottoms and sides of pots used for funerary rights. These objects were 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.
"Tab. V"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 51 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13.
1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; oval sheet 11.1 x 11.6 cm.
Imperfect; only the upper image of the underside of a pot is present, the rest of the plate having been trimmed away.
With manuscript note in ink below image, on mounting page: Bottom of the vase above.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 26.7 x 20.2 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material
etching and engraving with stipple ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic)
Classical antiquities
Subjects
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
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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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12685509
Object ID (OID)
16729660

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