Shelfmark
MS 402
Title
Twenty-six drawings in outline of pictures on ancient Greek vases. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1800s.
Physical description
1 volume : paper ; 31 x 48 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer.
Note
Place and date of production inferred from the provenance of the vases, and from the artistic style.
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Drawn in pencil and over-inked.
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Captions beneath the drawings have been trimmed off, but are sometimes partly visible. Some of the leaves have captions above the drawing giving the source, listed below.
Note
Some, but not all the leaves have ink numbers on the top right corner. These are not in order, and the highest is 49, suggesting the drawings were once part of a larger collection and have been bound out of order.
Note
Sources include both collections and printed publications: Aubin Millin's Galerie mythologique (Paris, 1811); the collection of Thomas Hollis; P.F. Hugue d'Hancarville and William Hamilton's Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities (Naples, 1766); G.B. Passeri's illustrations of vases in the Vatican library; J.J. Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (Rome, 1767).
Note
Sale catalogue entry pasted on inside front flyleaf: lot no. 254, price £1. 1s.
Binding
Early 19th century half leather; black and grey marbled boards; grey paper endpapers.
Subject
Vases, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mythology, Greek Early works to 1800.
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England
Identifier
B49564