Verbum sat sapienti [graphic].

Description

Title: Verbum sat sapienti [graphic].
Contributor: Wadd, William, 1776-1829, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image.
Possibly etched by William Wadd; statement of responsibility "W. Wadd fecit" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record.
Perhaps a later version of the satirical coat of arms designed by Richard Edgcumbe, George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole in 1756, which was engraved with the motto "Cog it amor nummi" at the bottom. Cf. No. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Mounted to 18 x 24 cm.
Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance: Formerly owned by T. Crofton Croker, with his bookplate in the volume. Gaskill, in a collection; 1939.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark sheet 11.7 x 16 cm, on sheet 13.5 x 17 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
Collection Title: Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]