Sacrificio di Priapo in vn' vaso di metallo giallo scavato nel' anno 1702 in Roma fra' il Circo Massimo & le Terme di Antonino Caracalla. [graphic]

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16729781

Description

Title
Sacrificio di Priapo in vn' vaso di metallo giallo scavato nel' anno 1702 in Roma fra' il Circo Massimo & le Terme di Antonino Caracalla. [graphic]
Published / Created
[not after 1797]
Publication Place
Italy?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Illustration of a bronze vase that was excavated in Rome in 1702. At center is a side view of the vase, with a depiction of a sacrifice to Priapus, which wraps around the back of the vase, expanded horizontally so that the entire scene is visible. In the lower left is a top view of the vase labeled "bocca del' vaso" and in the lower right a bottom view labeled "fondo dell' vaso."

Description
Title etched at top of plate.
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 to plate mark.
Possibly an image of the bronze vase that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 196 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 13.1 x 18.4 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 13.6 x 19 cm
Language
Italian

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Etchings Italy 1797
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Priapus
Vases
Subjects
Priapus (Greek deity)
Vases
Italy > 1797
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
13233283
Object ID (OID)
16729781

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