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:

Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett on recto of front flyleaf.
Binding: old red morocco, with gold tooling on boards and six stamps between bands on spine.
Leighton, September 1928, to W.S. Lewis, £15.15.0.
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].
Note on verso of flyleaf in Horace Walpole's hand: "Bought at the sale of Sr. Clement Cotterel's Library, 1764.
Old red morocco. No bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplates of Edward Hailstone and Oliver Brett.
On front pastedown: armorial bookplate in red morocco, gold stamped with arms and the name "Edward Hailstone".
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.
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.
Title from title page in Horace Walpole's hand.

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:

15481462

Citation:

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

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16852892

PID:

digcoll:4831070

Number of Pages: 54