Venus sleeping in the cabinet at Houghton / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Venus sleeping in the cabinet at Houghton / [graphic]
Creator
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 September 1785]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
Abstract

"In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat."
Text below title: The same size as the picture.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 173 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 : stipple engraving and etching in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 24 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 36.4 cm.
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 : oval image 23.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 38 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Stipple engravings England London 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material
stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Venus (Roman deity),
Subjects
Venus (Roman deity)
England > London > 1785
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

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Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13232205
Object ID (OID)
16729761

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