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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Egyptian Mummy, for Alexander Gordon's 'Essay...']](jpegs/47203.jpg)
[Egyptian Mummy, for Alexander Gordon's 'Essay...'] Viro Ingenio et Artibus ornatiss.mo Richardo Mead Medico Regio: [...]
A.G. del. [...] Vertue Sc. [1733]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Engraving of a mummy, published as Plate XIII of Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier' (1737). Gordon (c.1692-1754?) was an antiquary and singer. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 672.
[Ref: 47203] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
A.G. del. [...] Vertue Sc. [1733]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Engraving of a mummy, published as Plate XIII of Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier' (1737). Gordon (c.1692-1754?) was an antiquary and singer. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 672.
[Ref: 47203] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] Cadaver Balsamo conditum;](jpegs/61267.jpg)
[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [Greek letters] Pictura hieroglphica pulcerime insignito. Ex vetustis Ægypti Sepulchretis sublatum Londinum attulit D. Guil: Lethieullier. A.º D.º 1722.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
Societati Antiquariæ Londonensi Georgius Vertue D.D.D. et excudit 1724.
Engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Trimmed into image at top.
Four illustrations of an Egyptian coffin (the front, front profile, interior and back), published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
Societati Antiquariæ Londonensi Georgius Vertue D.D.D. et excudit 1724.
Engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Trimmed into image at top.
Four illustrations of an Egyptian coffin (the front, front profile, interior and back), published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] 3. Loculi Conspectus anterior, auctior aliquantum, quo Figuræ clarius et distinctius appareant.](jpegs/61268.jpg)
[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] 3. Loculi Conspectus anterior, auctior aliquantum, quo Figuræ clarius et distinctius appareant.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
[LOndon: Society of Antiquaries 1724.]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
The lower half of an Egyptian coffin, identified as a man called Irtyru, published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
[LOndon: Society of Antiquaries 1724.]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
The lower half of an Egyptian coffin, identified as a man called Irtyru, published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Caput hoc, ex aere inauratum, antiquo opere summoque artificio conflatum, Urbis inter rudera multis jam seculis excisae sepultum, Aquis Solis in agro Somersetensi XVI tandem sub solo ped. effossum A.D. MDCCXXVII.
A. Gordon del. G. Vertue Sculp. 1730.
Aeternitati consecravit Soc. Antiquar. Londinensis.
Engraving and etching. Plate 405 x 286mm. 16 x 11¼". Slight damage to title area.
Head and neck of a Roman sculpture found at Bath, in profile to left, with long hair; top of head missing.
Alexander: 612.
[Ref: 23334] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
A. Gordon del. G. Vertue Sculp. 1730.
Aeternitati consecravit Soc. Antiquar. Londinensis.
Engraving and etching. Plate 405 x 286mm. 16 x 11¼". Slight damage to title area.
Head and neck of a Roman sculpture found at Bath, in profile to left, with long hair; top of head missing.
Alexander: 612.
[Ref: 23334] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)