Drawing of a statue of Antinous; cloth draped over left shoulder and around left forearm; standing on an ornate plinth. The statue was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744 and on view
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., Text "ex aere" is etched near the bottom of the plate, to the left of the tripod., "Tab. XII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 119 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26.3 x 13.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Subject (Name):
Antinoüs, approximately 110-130, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of a statue of Antinous; cloth draped over left shoulder and around left forearm; standing on an ornate plinth. The statue was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744 and on view
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., Text "ex aere" is etched near the bottom of the plate, to the left of the tripod., "Tab. XII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 150 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 25.6 x 13.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Subject (Name):
Antinoüs, approximately 110-130, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Depiction of the marble statue of Antinous at the Palace of Versailles. The nude male figure stands on a pedestal, looking and leaning towards the left; with short curly hair, a drape over his right arm and shoulder, and a tree-trunk support to left
Description:
Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "36" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
