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- Creator:
- Barlow, Inigo, artist, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789., "Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner., Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 110 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., With manuscript label on separate strip of paper mounted below image: Mr. Walpole's unique gold is no. 4 of this plate., Mounted beside a note from Horace Walpole to Richard Bull in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. In the note Walpole also mentions sending along the plate in question, and the impression mounted here probably represents the top half of the plate he sent to Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- J. Edwards and J. Johnson
- Subject (Name):
- Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C., and Octavia, -11 B.C.,
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Coins, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Roman coins and medals] [graphic]