<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Bronze vase, antique [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[not after 1810]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Drawing composed of two images of a vase that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The top image shows the vase full-length from the side, with human and animal figures visible on the upper part of the vessel. This ornamentation, a depictioin of a sacrifice to Priapus that wraps completely around the vase, is expanded horizontally in the bottom image so that the entire scene is visible</dc:description><dc:description>Title written in ink below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.</dc:description><dc:description>Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.</dc:description><dc:description>Inlaid on page 68b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>