- Creator:
- Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1732]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
- Alternative Title:
- Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
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