- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3485 (9) no. 2 Impression 1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vetvs aqvilae signvm in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini [graphic]