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The Warwick Vase, as it appears in the Green House erected for it, at Warwick Castle.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. Brandard.
[Leamington, Published by C. Elston, 12, Lower Union Parade. M&N Hanhart, Lith Printers.][n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9''). Creasing
A view of a large antique vase, standing on an inscribed pedestal among trees planted in pots and in the ground, with figures of a man and woman standing at its side to the left, and a man on crutches pointing at the vase. The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase that was discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli c.1771 by Gavin Hamiton. It was sold to the British envoy at the court of Naples, Sir William Hamilton, who shipped the vase to his elder nephew, George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who commissioned a special greenhouse for it to preserve it from the British Climate.
[Ref: 50280] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. Brandard.
[Leamington, Published by C. Elston, 12, Lower Union Parade. M&N Hanhart, Lith Printers.][n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9''). Creasing
A view of a large antique vase, standing on an inscribed pedestal among trees planted in pots and in the ground, with figures of a man and woman standing at its side to the left, and a man on crutches pointing at the vase. The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase that was discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli c.1771 by Gavin Hamiton. It was sold to the British envoy at the court of Naples, Sir William Hamilton, who shipped the vase to his elder nephew, George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who commissioned a special greenhouse for it to preserve it from the British Climate.
[Ref: 50280] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
At Warwick Castle The Celebrated Warwick Vase in Marble, Height 4 fett 10 inches, exclusively of the Plinth._Greated diameter of the Lip 6 feet 3 inches.
Engraved by Henry Moses.
London Published by W.B. Cookes, 9 Soho Square, Oct.r 13.th 1827.
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet: 155 x 200mm (6 x 8'').
The Warwick Vase is a Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornament, discovered in the silt of a marshy pond at Hadrian's Villa about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton. He sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton who repaired it with Carrara marble and shipped it to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who set it on a lawn at Warwick Castle before building a conservatory for it. As a famous piece, a mould was made of it and two full-size bronze replicas were cast, one now Windsor Castle, the other in the Fitzwilliam Museum. At auction in 1978 the vase was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after it was declared an object of national importance an export licence was denied. It is now in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow in Scotland.
[Ref: 50486] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Henry Moses.
London Published by W.B. Cookes, 9 Soho Square, Oct.r 13.th 1827.
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet: 155 x 200mm (6 x 8'').
The Warwick Vase is a Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornament, discovered in the silt of a marshy pond at Hadrian's Villa about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton. He sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton who repaired it with Carrara marble and shipped it to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who set it on a lawn at Warwick Castle before building a conservatory for it. As a famous piece, a mould was made of it and two full-size bronze replicas were cast, one now Windsor Castle, the other in the Fitzwilliam Museum. At auction in 1978 the vase was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after it was declared an object of national importance an export licence was denied. It is now in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow in Scotland.
[Ref: 50486] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)