[Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]

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Title: [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
Alternative Title: Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
Creator: Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1732]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
Description: Title devised by curator.
Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page.
Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Provenance: Given by Mrs. Anne Damer to Sir Wathen Waller. Later owned by John Hely-Hutchinson, with his bookplate on verso of first flyleaf of volume. Sold Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (Hely-Hutchinson Sale), lot 584, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : circular sheet 21 cm, mounted to 29.4 x 23 cm
Language: Latin

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title: Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Early works to 1800
Poetry
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: brown ink and wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Rome
Subject (Name): Dionysus (Greek deity)
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,
Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
Subject (Topic): Social life and customs
Agriculture
Rites & ceremonies
Views
Subjects: Rome > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800
Dionysus (Greek deity) > Poetry
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo
Agriculture
Rites & ceremonies
Views
British > 19th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ownership
Waller, Wathen, Sir > Ownership
Hely-Hutchinson, John Walter, 1882-1955 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Bernard Lens, Wheel with 12 Sections Showing Roman Scenes. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.