[Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [graphic].

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Title: [Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [graphic].
Published / Created: [not after 1806?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of both sides of a silver medal, the obverse showing the bust of Pope Gregory XIII in profile to the left and the reverse showing the destroying angel murdering the Protestants
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of large portions of the plate.
Horace Walpole owned one of these medals and kept it in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
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.
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 3.4 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1806
Engravings England London 1806
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Medals
Subjects: Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Medals
England > London > 1806
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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