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- Creator:
- Thomassin, S. (Simon), 1652?-1732, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1695]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Apollo Belvedere or the Pythian Apollo. The nude male figure stands on a pedestal, folded drapery hanging from his outstretched left arm; his right hand rests on the tree trunk at his side around which coils the python
- 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 "34" 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.
- Publisher:
- P. Mortier
- Subject (Name):
- Apollo (Deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Apollon Pityen [graphic]