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Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi
Title
[Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [graphic].
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [not after 1806?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 3.4 x 13 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of large portions of the plate.
Horace Walpole owned one of these medals and kept it in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Summary
Depiction of both sides of a silver medal, the obverse showing the bust of Pope Gregory XIII in profile to the left and the reverse showing the destroying angel murdering the Protestants.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 12, 2018
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Etchings - England - London - 1806.
Engravings - England - London - 1806.
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