Mercury from the original bust of the Honble. Peniston Lambe, executed in marble by the Honble. Anne Damer / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Mercury from the original bust of the Honble. Peniston Lambe, executed in marble by the Honble. Anne Damer / [graphic]
Creator
Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Contributor
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, sculptor.
Roberts, James, 1753-approximately 1809, artist, publisher.
Published / Created
[26 June 1790]
Publication Place
Oxford and London
Publisher
Publish'd as the act directs June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Abstract

"Portrait bust of the Honble Peniston Lambe, turned in profile to left on a ledge, wearing winged helmet of the god, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1917,1208.2897.
Mounted on page 262 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.
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 26.9 x 18.5 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Stipple engravings England London 1790
Stipple engravings England Oxford 1790
Material
stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Lambe, Peniston, 1773-1805,
Mercury (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic)
Sculpture
Subjects
Lambe, Peniston, 1773-1805
Mercury (Roman deity)
Sculpture
England > London > 1790
England > Oxford > 1790
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13627784
Object ID (OID)
16733153

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