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

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2799659 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/XXXXXXX

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.
Text "e vitro" etched at bottom of plate.
"Tab. VII"--Upper right corner.

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,--depicted.
Containers.
Glassware.

Topics:

Bawtree, William,--1744-1824--Ownership.
Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Cox, Henry Shute, publisher.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Manby, Richard, -1769, publisher.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Book illustrations.
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 33 30 Copy 11

Orbis Record:

12684874

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr15394

OID:

16824680

PID:

digcoll:4778608