Gemmarum series; in quibus imagines variae, antiquo opere caelatae ... [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Gemmarum series; in quibus imagines variae, antiquo opere caelatae ... [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Qvadorvm trivmphvs
Quadorum triumphus - Creator
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
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Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1745]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Abstract
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Fourteen cameos, seals, and medallions, each with Roman numeral numbering above, including: a large intaglio on onyx of Byzas, imaginary founder of Byzantium (I); a cameo on agate of a sleeping hermaphrodite with two satyrs (II); a cornelian seal with half figure of Omphale (VI); a caprice on white cornelian combining the head of Socrates with a peacock and an elephant holding a scepter (X); and a cameo on agate of an Egyptian duck (XIII). The objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description
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Title from index on signature A of volume.
Text on large, circular medallion numbered "XIV" at bottom of plate: Qvadorvm trivmphvs.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears.
Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745.
"Tab. XXI"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 166 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 with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 16 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 22.5 x 16.4 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
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Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745 - Material
- etching with engraving ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
- Classical antiquities
- Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
England > London > 1745
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
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
- 12784884
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729752
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