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.

Creator:

Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1755]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 36.8 x 26 cm, on sheet 54 x 39 cm

Notes:

Date based on Horace Walpole correspondence with Horace Mann and others about the print.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
Title in Latin engraved in image.

Abstract:

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 Titles:

Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum

Topics:

Antiquities in art.
Eagles.

Topics:

Bawtree, William,--1744-1824--Ownership.
Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Dickenson, Mary Hamilton,--1756-1816--Ownership.
Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Wale, Samuel, -1786, artist.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1755.

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 33 30 Copy 11

Orbis Record:

9738829

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr15580

Citation:

Hazen, A.T. Cataloge of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3485

OID:

16729732

PID:

digcoll:4703440