Subject (Topic): Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572

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Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1824]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of both sides of a silver medal owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Library at Strawberry Hill. On the obverse is a bust of Pope Gregory XIII, in profile to the left; on the reverse an allegorical image of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, with an angel holding a crucifix and sword over the bodies of men and women cowering in fear
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 102 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Geographic):: French.
Subject (Name):: Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572, Massacres, and Medals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [art original].