[Scritti di varie cose antiche].
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Description
- Title
- [Scritti di varie cose antiche].
- Alternative Title
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Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, etc. from Greek and Roman antiquities
Book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities - Creator
- Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700
- Contributor
- Hodgson, Joseph, 1793-1876, binder.
- Published / Created
- [169-?]
- Publication Place
- Rome?
- Abstract
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A sketchbook of drawings of antiquities, with brief notations about the objects depicted, in multiple hands. Horace Walpole describes the volume in his 1774 Description of Strawberry Hill as "a book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities." These very fine, detailed drawings in a variety of media -- graphite, pen and ink, wash, and watercolor -- are in some cases mounted onto the leaves, in other cases, drawn directly onto the rectos
- Description
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Pietro Santi Bartoli, Italian painter, etcher and engraver, active in Rome.
Title from Hazen.
No text; a few notes in Italian and Latin.
Title from f. [1r] of item. "The title, distributed over six lines on the frontispiece ... was riddled with gaps -- "SO...TI [or "SC...TI"]/D... / VAR ... /COSE / ANTI / CHE"--which I suggest should be read as "Scritti di varie cose antiche" (Notes on various ancient objects)". From Irène Aghion's unpublished research. Aghion also identifies the artist as Bartoli.
Cited in Allen T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2371 (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969) and titled: Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, &c.
In his Description of Strawberry Hill (1774), Horace Walpole cites the volume as: A book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities.
Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool, with gold tooled borders and blind-stamping on boards. 'Antiquities. Original drawings' in gold on spine; gilt edges. Binder's stamp on verso of front flyleaf.
With the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 26. B ; and with the bookplate of Horace Walpole (BP1).
Numbered pages bound in the following sequence: 1-2, 4-5, 3, 6-7, 9-10, 8, 11-16, 18-20, 17, 22-149.
Blank leaves: 2-5, 7-8, 16-17, 65. Page 21 missing.
Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Lord Derby. - Provenance
- Purchased by W.S. Lewis 19 October 1953, Christie's Knowsley Sale, lot 143. Purchased from the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale, day 6, lot 12, by Boone for Lord Derby. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 12, to Boone for Lord Derby, £8.8.0; Christie's, 19 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 143. Maggs, for W.S. Lewis,
- Extent
- 143 drawings in 1 volume : binding height 27 cm
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 2371
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Graphite drawings British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Armorial bindings (Provenance)
Binders' stamps (Binding) Hodgson, Liverpool
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- ink, wash, graphite ;
- Subject (Topic)
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Art, Greek
Art, Roman
Classical antiquities in art
Antiquities
Roman
Greek
Bas-reliefs
Coins
Medals
Vases - Subjects
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Art, Greek
Art, Roman
Classical antiquities in art
Antiquities > Roman
Antiquities > Greek
Bas-reliefs
Coins
Medals
Vases
British > 18th century
Hodgson, Liverpool
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of, 1775-1851 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Scritti di varie cose antiche. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 1738755
- Object ID (OID)
- 16034076
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