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Drawings Roman bronze figures from Wiltshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.267

Artist/Designer/Maker

Burghers, M - Engraver

Production date

1714
1717

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)

Dimensions

Height: 632mm
Width: 424mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Penates, apud Devisas, in BELGIO nostro effossi, Anno 1714.

Inscription content

1. Venus
2. an Iupiter Ammon?
3. Neptunus
4. Hercules
5. Vulcanus
6. Bacchvs
7.
8. Pallas
9. Virgo Vestalis
10. Mercurius
11.
12. Lupa cum Romulo et Remo
13.
14.
15. Apis
16. Anubis
17. Bucephalus
18. Bacchvs
19.

Inscription content

Noblissimo Principi
FREDERICO
GEORGII ffilio Celsissimi [?bellissimi]
GEORGII Nep. Augustissimi
CÆSARI destinato,
M.BRITANNIÆ Spei, Deliciis,
Animæq desideratissimæ,
PENATES hosce Annos Sesquimille Terra
absconditos, Voti & Obsequii Sui Pignus,
Sacrari Voluit,
Guilh: Musgrave, G.F.
ISCANVS.

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PENATES hi Guil: Cadby, apud DEVISAS Olitoris,
Ære incisi et Charta Imperiali impressi, veneunt a Bibliopolis Knapton Londinensi, Clements Oxoniensi, et Yeo Exoniensi.
MDCCXVII.

Inscription content

MBurghers Sculp.