I. Bulla aurea. Ubi de bullae usu atque origine apud veteres Romanos disquiritur ... [graphic]Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker[1745]latThree ancient Roman objects, each with Roman numeral numbering above. These include a Roman bulla (I); a miniature of a Roman lady and her son, the boy with a bulla at his neck (II); and a Calcedonian stone that was used as an ornament to a horse of a triumphal chariot (III). The objects on which this image is based were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744Title from index on signature A of volume.Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears.Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745."Ex auro" etched below object numbered "I"; "e vitro" etched below object numbered "II"; "e chalcedonio" etched below object numbered "III"."Tab. III"--Upper right corner.Mounted on page 169 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 with engraving and stipple on laid paper ; sheet 15.5 x 14.1 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of Roman numeral "II" and plate numbering from upper right and loss of printmaker's signature from lower right.For further information, consult library staff.