Title etched below image., Plate from: Grose, F. The antiquities of England and Wales. London : Hooper & Wigstead, 1783-1797, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 253 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 14.5 x 19.1 cm., Note in ink below image on mounting sheet: There is a model of this Druid temple in wood at Strawberry Hill., and For further information, consult library staff.
A statue of an ibis; neck craned backwards, head pointed to the sky; standing on a cylindrical pedestal. After the statute that was 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., Text "ex aere" is etched at the bottom of the plate., "Tab. X"--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 25.5 x 19 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
A statue of an ibis; neck craned backwards, head pointed to the sky; standing on a cylindrical pedestal. After the statute that was 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., Text "ex aere" is etched at the bottom of the plate., "Tab. X"--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 24.2 x 17.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A view of inside the stone circle of Stonehenge. One figure, holding a long pole, stands next to a fallen sarsen stone while another figure, holding a similar pole, stands on top of the fallen sarsen stone
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Title written below image, in artist's hand?, Signed lower right: J. Carter, Inscription in pencil lower right: This leaning has now been set upright in 1901., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
Drawing of Stonehenge before the fall of the Trilithon in 1797. A figure sits on a low stone in the center
Description:
Title from item., Signed lower right: J. Carter., Inscription in pencil lower right: Taken before the fall of the Right hand Trilithon on 3rd Jany 1797., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
View of Stonehenge and the surrounding Salisbury Plain
Alternative Title:
View of Stonehenge taken at the distance of a mile 1781
Description:
Signed lower right: J. Carter del. 1785., Inscription in pencil on verso: Interesting set of 4 original view of Stonehenge sketches in 1781 by J. Carter, doubtless the J. Carter (1748-1817) Draughtsman and architect and author of "Ancient Architecture of England", fol. London 1795. Edit. by J. Britton fol. 1845. with 106 plates, nos. II and III being of Stonehenge., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
View of the Heelstone standing in the Avenue which led to the entrance of Stonehenge
Alternative Title:
Heel-stone
Description:
Inscription by artist underneath the image: View of a remarkable stone at about 40 feet distance from Stonehenge (taken 1781 and del 1785 J. Carter). This form gives the idea of an ancient Druid worshiping near his temple and according to the legends, old tales, this Stone was once in reality a Druid, who for his heathen adoration was turned into a Stone., Inscription in pencil lower right: The Heel-stone., Inscription on verso in pencil: This drawing of the Heel-Stone is unremarkable like it is at present. See E. Barclay "Stonehenge", 1895 Pl. fo. 29. & E.H. Stone "The Stones of Stonehenge",1924 p.128 & fol.34. It is very little elaborated here., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
A sketchbook of drawings of antiquities, with brief notations about the objects depicted, in multiple hands. Horace Walpole describes the volume in his 1774 Description of Strawberry Hill as "a book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities." These very fine, detailed drawings in a variety of media -- graphite, pen and ink, wash, and watercolor -- are in some cases mounted onto the leaves, in other cases, drawn directly onto the rectos
Alternative Title:
Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, etc. from Greek and Roman antiquities and Book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities
Description:
Pietro Santi Bartoli, Italian painter, etcher and engraver, active in Rome., Title from Hazen., No text; a few notes in Italian and Latin., Title from f. [1r] of item. "The title, distributed over six lines on the frontispiece ... was riddled with gaps -- "SO...TI [or "SC...TI"]/D... / VAR ... /COSE / ANTI / CHE"--which I suggest should be read as "Scritti di varie cose antiche" (Notes on various ancient objects)". From Irène Aghion's unpublished research. Aghion also identifies the artist as Bartoli., Cited in Allen T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2371 (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969) and titled: Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, &c., In his Description of Strawberry Hill (1774), Horace Walpole cites the volume as: A book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities., Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool, with gold tooled borders and blind-stamping on boards. 'Antiquities. Original drawings' in gold on spine; gilt edges. Binder's stamp on verso of front flyleaf., With the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 26. B ; and with the bookplate of Horace Walpole (BP1)., Numbered pages bound in the following sequence: 1-2, 4-5, 3, 6-7, 9-10, 8, 11-16, 18-20, 17, 22-149., Blank leaves: 2-5, 7-8, 16-17, 65. Page 21 missing., and Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Lord Derby.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Greek, Art, Roman, Classical antiquities in art, Antiquities, Roman, Greek, Bas-reliefs, Coins, Medals, and Vases
Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger from text on item. and Plates, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Ant. Cardon, Nolli, Carmine Pignatari, and Dufrenoi; after Giuseppe Bracci, Filip de Grado, Edmondo Beaulieu, Gio. Bat. Tierce, Aniel. Lamberti, and R. Beaulieu. Printmaker of the title page not identified.
