book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1853,1210.803-818
- Description
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‘Sixteen humorous designs, to illustrate Virgil, Horace, and Livy’ (privately printed), n.d.; containing 16 lithographs, with Latin titles: 1. Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros, 2. Exanimumque auro corpus vendebat Achilles, 3. Mihi parvus Iülus, sit comes et longè servet vestigial conjux, 4. Verùm ubi nulla datur dextra affectare potestas… 5. Speluncam Dido, dux et Trojanus eandem… 6. Hauriat hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto… 7. Densis ictibus heros… 8. Illum indignanti simile, similemque minanti… 9. Et fluvium vinclis innaret Cloelia ruptis, 10. Actius hoec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo… 11. Stetit acer in armis… 12. Fertur pudicae conjugis osculum… 13. Romanus exsultans “duos”… 14. “En tibi, ut sentias quam vile corpus sit iis qui magnam… 15. Tum Marcum Curtium, equo, quam poterat maxime… 16. “Neque heri me aurum tuum peltexit”…; together with letterpress description of the plates. Bound in red boards, title within woodcut border on a label at front cover.
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1800-1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Sixteen humorous designs
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1853,1210.803-818
