Catalogue of a collection of Architectural and other casts, late the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence dec.d these casts were taken principally from the beautiful marble specimens at Rome and are facsimiles of the ornaments of the most celebrated buildings now remaining in the FORA etc. etc. as well as from those fragments discovered at various times, and placed in the Museum of the Capitol and Vatican, together with parts of candelabra, altars, pedestals, cippi, etc. etc. in those and other private collections.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
23/912
Imprint
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 183?
Physical Description
50 pages; 25.5 cm.
General Note
Manuscript in brown ink.
13 leaves interleaved with ruled sheets.
Bound with eight printed catalogues, seven of which are auction sales catalogues of Thomas Lawrence's colections, sold after his death in 1830. Each auction catalogue is annotated with prices and buyers' names in brown ink on interleaved, ruled sheets. The manuscript is the eighth catalogue bound in the volume.
Summary Note
Contents: 285 lots. Lots comprised of casts from the following and other monuments: Temple of Mars Ultor, Temple of Antoninus and faustina, Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Temple of Vesta at Rome, Arch of Septimius Severus, Pantheon, Temple of Pallas, Arch of Titus, Temple of Jupiter Tonans, Temple of Jupiter Stator.