An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a plinth decorated with satyr's heads, garlands, eagles and a plaque inscribed "Diis. manibvs. m. lvccei. m. et d. l. martialis vixit annis xviii m. lvcceius m. i. optatvs et lvcceia m. i. hebene filio. pio et. sibi. fecervnt".
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum in aedibus Horatii Walpole Londini and Marble eagle on a plinth
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., Copy of: Marble eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli ... on a handsome antique sepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. From the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ..., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., Mounted on page 109 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 on laid paper ; sheet 36.7 x 25.8 cm., and Sheet trimemd within plate mark.
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a plinth decorated with satyr's heads, garlands, eagles and a plaque inscribed "Diis. manibvs. m. lvccei. m. et d. l. martialis vixit annis xviii m. lvcceius m. i. optatvs et lvcceia m. i. hebene filio. pio et. sibi. fecervnt".
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum in aedibus Horatii Walpole Londini and Marble eagle on a plinth
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., Copy of: Marble eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli ... on a handsome antique sepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. From the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ..., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., Mounted on page 141 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 35.2 x 24.2 cm, and For further information, consult library staff.
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a plinth decorated with satyr's heads, garlands, eagles and a plaque inscribed "Diis. manibvs. m. lvccei. m. et d. l. martialis vixit annis xviii m. lvcceius m. i. optatvs et lvcceia m. i. hebene filio. pio et. sibi. fecervnt".
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum in aedibus Horatii Walpole Londini and Marble eagle on a plinth
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., Copy of: Marble eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli ... on a handsome antique sepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. From the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ..., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum and Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., Mounted on page 109 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 ; sheet 36.9 x 26.1 cm., and Laid paper. Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum and Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., Mounted on page 141 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 35.5 x 24.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum and Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
Description:
Title in Latin engraved in image., Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print., and The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., In margin upper left: Tab. VI., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration.