Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]
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16733033
Description
- Title
- Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Vetus aquilae signum in aedibus Horatii Walpole Londini
Marble eagle on a plinth - 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 plinth decorated with satyr's heads, garlands, eagles and a plaque inscribed "Diis. manibvs. m. lvccei. m. et d. l. martialis vixit annis xviii m. lvcceius m. i. optatvs et lvcceia m. i. hebene filio. pio et. sibi. fecervnt".
- 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.
Copy of: Marble eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli ... on a handsome antique sepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. From the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ...
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 35.2 x 24.2 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 : plate mark 37 x 26 cm, on sheet 53.9 x 39.3 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
- Etchings England London 1755
- Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
- Eagles
- Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Eagles
England > London > 1755
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
- 9738896
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733033
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