Trivmphvs pavpertatis ex mvseo Georgii Gvilielmi Fleischmann Consiliarii Intimi Hasso-Darmstadiensis / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Trivmphvs pavpertatis ex mvseo Georgii Gvilielmi Fleischmann Consiliarii Intimi Hasso-Darmstadiensis / [graphic]
Alternative Title
Triumphus paupertatis
Contributor
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Mechel, Christian von, 1737-1817, publisher.
Published / Created
[1780]
Publication Place
Basileae
Publisher
Apud Christianum à Mechel chalographum
Abstract

"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Mounted on page 130 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.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 21.3 x 27 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 22.6 x 34 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Allegorical prints
Etchings Switzerland Basel 1780
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Parades & processions
Subjects
Parades & processions
Switzerland > Basel > 1780
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
12778011
Object ID (OID)
16729727

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