A collection of the Spintrian medals of Tiberius [graphic].

Published/Created:

[Italy?]
[not after 1764]

Physical Description:

49 drawings in 1 album : red ink ; 19 cm

Related Links:

Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2599

Notes:

Title from title page in Horace Walpole's hand.
Binding: old red morocco, with gold tooling on boards and six stamps between bands on spine.
Note on verso of flyleaf in Horace Walpole's hand: "Bought at the sale of Sr. Clement Cotterel's Library, 1764.
On front pastedown: armorial bookplate in red morocco, gold stamped with arms and the name "Edward Hailstone".
Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett on recto of front flyleaf.
Not listed in: A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, ... which will be sold by auction, ... by Samuel Baker. [London, 1764].
Strawberry Hill sale, vi. 68 to Strong; Sotheby's, 4 July 1854 (Pigott Sale), lot 655; Sotheby's, 4 February 1891 (Hailstone Sale), lot 1961; Sotheby's, 23 July 1928 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 1086, to Leighton; Leighton, September 1928 to W.S. Lewis.
Leighton, September 1928, to W.S. Lewis, £15.15.0.
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 68, to Strong, £8.8.0; Sotheby's, 4 July 1851 (Pigott Sale), Lot 655, £3.16.0; Sotheby's, 4 February 1891 (Hailstone Sale), lot 1961, £8; Sotheby's, 23 July 1928 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 1086, to Leighton, £5.10.0.
Old red morocco. No bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplates of Edward Hailstone and Oliver Brett.

Abstract:

Manuscript, in a single hand, with the title in Horace Walpole's hand, containing 49 drawings in red ink of medals, many of them erotic.

Topics:

Erotic art -- Italy -- Rome
Esher, Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1881-1963
Hailstone, Edward, 1818-1890
Medals
Medals, Roman
Nudes
Sex
Sex in art
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 42 B.C.-37 A.D
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Ink drawings

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

49 2599

Orbis Record:

10162058

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr32530_par

oid pointer:

15481463

Citation:

A Collection of the Spintrian Medals of Tiberius. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15481462

PID:

digcoll:2781974

Number of Pages: 0