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Patera aenea, uti vulgo vocatur ..
Title
Patera aenea, uti vulgo vocatur ... [graphic] / J. Mynde sc.
Publication
[London] : [R. Manby and H.S. Cox], [1745]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.6 x 19 cm
Notes
Title from index on signature A of volume.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears.
Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745.
"Ex aere" etched below image.
"Tab. XV"--Upper right corner.
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
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.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Summary
Depiction of an engraved patera, or shallow libation bowl, of bronze. This object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744.
Format
Images
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Etchings - England - London - 1745.
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