[Roman coins and medals] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[Roman coins and medals] [graphic]
Creator
Barlow, Inigo, artist, printmaker
Published / Created
[1789]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
J. Edwards and J. Johnson
Abstract

Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill

Description
Title devised by cataloger.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789.
"Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner.
Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression.
Mounted on page 111 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 on wove paper ; sheet 7.4 x 10.3 cm.
Imperfect; only bottom half of plate is present, with top half and all text trimmed away.
This impression probably represents the bottom half of a plate sent by Horace Walpole to Richard Bull. See top half of plate and note from Walpole to Bull mounted on preceding page (page 110).
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 7.5 x 11 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1789
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.,
Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Subject (Topic)
Classical antiquities
Coins
Medals
Subjects
Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.
Octavia, -11 B.C.
Classical antiquities > Pictorial works
Coins
Medals
England > London > 1789
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Presentation to Richard Bull
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13496866
Object ID (OID)
16729709

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