Title from image., Caption above image: "He delivered the Poor that cried.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Handwritten signature in lower right corner., On page numbered 14 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., and Wax seal in lower left corner.
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etchings., Text above image: No. 1., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1st, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
This sestertius, originally equivalent to the value of about four asses, was among the many hundreds of ancient coins in Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from dealer's catalog., Date taken from dealer's catalog., Laureate-draped and cuirassed bust r., rev., Victory aug., Victory standing facing, holding wreath and palm (RIC 25)., Balbinus, Roman orator, poet and statesman, appointed in 238 by the Senate as joint emperor of Rome and murdered the same year by soldiers of the Praetorian Guard at Rome. (The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, ed. Clarence L. Barnhard [New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1954] col. 1, p. 318)., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Didius Julian, rare; Albinus, 2; Caracalla, 2; Julia, Mæsa, Alexander, Barbia, Orbiana (very rare); Maximinus, Diva Paulina, rare; Maximus Cæsar, and Balbinus.