Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini / [graphic]
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16729732
Description
- Title
- Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini / [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum
Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque - Creator
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Contributor
- Wale, Samuel, -1786, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1755]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles
- Description
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Title in Latin engraved in image.
Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
Mounted on page 141 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 laid paper ; sheet 35.5 x 24.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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 36.8 x 26 cm, on sheet 54 x 39 cm
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Engravings England London 1755
- Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
-
Antiquities in art
Eagles - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Antiquities in art
Eagles
England > London > 1755
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
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
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
- 9738829
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729732
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