[Silver medal of Lord Treasurer Southampton] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Silver medal of Lord Treasurer Southampton] [graphic].
Contributor: Simon, Abraham, 1617-approximately 1692, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of a silver medal of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, when he was Lord High Treasurer. The obverse, comprising the left half of the design, shows a bust portrait of Lord Southampton in profile to the left. The reverse, comprising the right half of the design, bears his name and title in Latin and a date: Thomas Comes Sovthamptoniae Svmmvs Angliae Thesavrarivs & MDCLXIIII
Description: Title devised by curator.
Engraved after a medal created by Abraham Simon.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Horace Walpole kept an example of this medal in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 89 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.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 4.7 x 10 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Etchings England 1797
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of, 1607-1667.
Subject (Topic): Medals
Subjects: Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of, 1607-1667
Medals
England > 1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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