I. Bulla aurea. Ubi de bullae usu atque origine apud veteres Romanos disquiritur ... [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- I. Bulla aurea. Ubi de bullae usu atque origine apud veteres Romanos disquiritur ... [graphic]
- Creator
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
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Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1745]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Abstract
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Three 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 1744
- Description
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Title 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 132 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
1 print : etching with engraving and stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 15.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins. - Provenance
- Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 15.4 cm
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1745 - Material
- etching with engraving and stipple ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
- Classical antiquities
- Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Classical antiquities
England > London > 1745
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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12788163
- Object ID (OID)
- 16850850
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