Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 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., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
Title from item., Written at lower edge: Ex uetusissimo Codice Dioscoridiano Bibliothecae Caesareae Vindobon. TAB II. 92., From: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1613-1696. Veterum illustrium philosophorum, poetarum, rhetorum, et oratorum imagines : ex vetustis nummis, gemmis, hermis, marmoribus, alijsque antiquis monumentis desumptae. Published in Rome, 1739., 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: Apollonius; Nicander.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos., Galen., Crateuas., and Rufus, of Ephesus.
A view of the altar that was erected by John James Capoccio in 1256 in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome, perhaps the work of Peter Cavallini
Alternative Title:
SS. omnium altare cum marmoreo vetere ciborio musivo opere artificiose constructo in quo sacrae reliquiae religiose coluntur and Altar erected in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: De Angelis, P. Basilicae S. Mariae Maioris de vrbe a Liberio Papa I vsqve ad Pavlvm V pont. max. ... Romae : Ex typographia B. Zannetti, 1621., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Scale bar below image labeled "Scala palmorum.", "H2"--Lower right corner of plate., The upper part of this altar was purchased by Sir William Hamilton in 1767 and was then sent to back England to Horace Walpole, who in 1771 erected a chapel at Strawberry Hill to display it., Mounted on page 174 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., and On laid paper mount (43 x 27 cm) with Horace Walpole's annotation: This altar was erected by J. James Capoccio in the Church of Sta. Maria Maggiore of Rome; but being removed in 1767, the upper part, of beautifull mosaic, was purchased by Sr. W. Hamilton, younger son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, & then British Minister at Naples; and being sent by him to Mr. H. Walpole, the latter erected a chapel for it in his garden at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex, 1771.
Publisher:
B. Zannetti
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy),
"The Virgin seated, directed to left but looking down and away to right, with the infant Christ on her lap; St Joseph at left, leaning on a table at left over a book, spectacles in his left hand; the infant Baptist at right, pulling on the Virgin's cloak; landscape with two small figures beyond to right (so-called 'Montalto Madonna'); after Annibale Carracci."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Eminentissimo principi Francisco Peretto S.R.E. Cardinali Montalto
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger based on title of original painting., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: U,1.73., Dedication engraved below image: Eminentissimo principi Francisco Peretto S.R.E. Cardinali Montalto., and Text below dedication: Extat in aedibus hortoru[m] Quirinaliu[m] ejusdem eminmi.
Publisher:
Cu[m] privil. S.C. Mtis. et Regis Christmi. Romae Superioru[m] licentia
Title supplied by curator., Carlo Losi was active in Rome., Date from item., In image bottom: Tyrones picturae Hbmo. et Exmo. Dno Iacobo Boncompagno Arcis Praefecto, ingenior(um) ac industriae fautori, Artiu(m) nobiliu(m) praxim, a lo Strade(n)si Belga artificiose expressa., 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: Anatomy for artists.
Publisher:
Apud Carolus Losi
Subject (Name):
Boncompagni, Giacomo, 1548-1612,
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Human anatomy, Human dissection, Art, Study and teaching, Students, Artists, Sculpture, Paintings, and Dead persons
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.