[Brass seal of Henrietta Maria] [graphic]
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16729686
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
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"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 82 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 ; circular sheet 11.1 cm and circular sheet 11.3 cm.
Imperfect; the images of the two faces of the medal have been cut from sheet and are mounted side-by-side, with the rest of the plate trimmed away.
Mounted below is a seven-paragraph letterpress description of the medal, beginning: This seal of brass very finely cut, belongs to Henrietta Maria, daughter of the Great Henry IV of France, and wife to our Charles I ...
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 : sheet 22.9 x 12.5 cm
- Language
-
English
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 ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669.
- Subjects
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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
- 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12701934
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729686
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