Quatuor item vascula vitrea, in eundem usum parata ... [graphic] / J. Mynde sc.

Creator:

Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1745]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 22.7 x 20.2 cm

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Notes:

"Tab. VII."--Upper right corner.
Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears.
Text "e vitro" etched at bottom of plate.
Title from index on signature A of volume.

Abstract:

Depiction of four glass vessels with sepulchral functions. The two flask-shaped vessels at top were apparently used to hold oils and the pot-shaped vessels below used to hold ashes. These vessels were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744.

Topics:

Classical antiquities--Pictorial works.
Containers.
Glassware.

Topics:

Bawtree, William,--1744-1824--Ownership.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher.
Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Middleton, Conyers,--1683-1750.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Art collections.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Walpole, Horace--1717-1797--Art collections.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Book illustrations--1745.
Engravings--England--London--1745.
Etchings--England--London--1745.

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:

Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

12684874

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr16070

OID:

16192975

PID:

digcoll:4046838