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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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NIOBE

NIOBE

1792 Catalogue Description

From the head of that celebrated statue in the Grand Duke’s Gallery at Florence. This statue was found with her children a little way out of the porta di S. Giovanni. See Memoria di Flaminio Vacca No. 74.

Material

Cornelian
Gem Type

Original Owner

Sir W. HAMILTON, K.B.

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