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Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini
Title
Vetvs aqvilae signvm marmorevm [graphic] : operis eximii anno MDCCXXXXII idibvs Octobris Romae prope thermas Antoninianas in hortis Bvccapadvliis ad radices aventini effossvm : nvnc in aedibvs Horatii Walpole Londini / S. Wale del. ; C. Grignion sculp.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1755]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 36.8 x 26 cm, on sheet 54 x 39 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
Notes
Title in Latin engraved in image.
Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print.
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
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
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles.
Variant and related titles
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum
Descriptive title in English: Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
Format
Images
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
April 26, 2011
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3485
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Engravings - England - London - 1755.
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