Hercules de Farnese [graphic]

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Title: Hercules de Farnese [graphic]
Creator: Thomassin, S. (Simon), 1652?-1732, printmaker
Contributor: Cornu, Jean, 1650-1710, sculptor.
Published / Created: [not after 1732?]
Publication Place: Paris?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the sculpture known as the Farnese Hercules. The figure stands on a pedestal, leaning on a club covered with lion-skin, his right hand behind his back
Description: Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image.
Place of publication based on printmaker's city of activity; date of publication based on printmaker's death date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered "30" in upper right corner.
Mounted on page 136 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.
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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 13.5 x 9 cm
Language: French

Genre: Art
Early works to 1800
Etchings France Paris 1732
Engravings France Paris 1732
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hercules (Roman mythological character)
Subject (Topic): Sculpture
Subjects: Hercules (Roman mythological character) > Art > Early works to 1800
Sculpture
France > Paris > 1732
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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