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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

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1792 Catalogue Description

From the head of a statue in the collection of Charles Townley Esq. The Modius and the ear-ring in the original are not copied in the Intaglio. This statue was found near the monument of Cecilia Metella (vulgarly called Capo di Bove) in the Via Appia in the pontificate of Sixtus V. and placed by that Pontiff in his villa situated on the Quirinal Hill now called the Villa Negroni.

Material

Chalcedony
Gem Type

Original Owner

PRINCE PONIATOWSKI

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