Hastae antiquae spiculum, atque instrumenta duo fabrilia, ex aere confecta ... [graphic]

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Title
Hastae antiquae spiculum, atque instrumenta duo fabrilia, ex aere confecta ... [graphic]
Creator
Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
Contributor
Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher.
Published / Created
[1745]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Abstract

Spearhead at center (numbered "I") with two chisel-like weapons or tools on either side (numbered "II" and "III"). The objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744

Description
Title from index on signature A of volume.
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.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Ex aere" etched at the bottom of each of the three images.
"Tab. XVII"--Upper right corner.
Mounted on page 193 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 and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26 x 18.6 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 : sheet 26.1 x 19 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Material
etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic)
Arms & armament
Spears
Subjects
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Arms & armament
Spears
England > London > 1745
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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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13232190
Object ID (OID)
16729775

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