Explore the 1792 Gem Collection

Currently, the working pages on this site can be found on the “EXPLORE” AND “Catalogues” pages.

  • EXPLORE – Search by text and image match the “Catalgoue of Impressions of One Hundred Gems” by Marchant, 1792
    • Master Index – A comparative spreadsheet comparing the entries about Marchant’s 100 gems as found in his 1792 Catalogue, in the Raspe-Tassie Catalogue of 1791, and The Gertrude Seidmann article in the Walpole Journal, 1987.
  • Catalogues – PDF copies of two Catalogues

GEM DETAIL

CUPID carrying Game upon a Pedum said to be the Genius of the Chace

1792 Catalogue Description

From an antique Cameo of the same size in the collection of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Worsley Bart This Cameo was found in the month of February 1788 near the Porta Portese where the gardens of Caesar are supposed to have been situated as conjectured by Flaminio Vacca

Material

Sardonyx

Gem Type

Original Owner

R PAYNE KNIGHT Esq

To view a copy of the entry for this imprssion in the original catalogue CLICK HERE.