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Minerva's Head, Bath 1730

Minerva's Head, Bath 1730

Image Reference: 45022
Image Date: 1730
Measurements: 38 x 27 cm
Medium: print
Collection: Scrapbooks
Library Reference: Chapman vol.1, p.9
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: Discovered in 1727, this gilded head is now in the Roman Baths Museum. The engraving was made in 1730 and was later published in "Vetusta Monumenta" by the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747, Vol. 1, Pl. 1.34. With notation underneath 'Caput hoc, ex ære inauratum, antiquo opere summoque artificio conflatum. Urbis inter rudera multis jam seculis excifæ sepultum, Aquis Solis in agro Somersetensi XVI tandem sub solo ped eddossum. A.D. MDCCXXVII' Æternitati consecravit Soc. Antiquar. Londinensis.
A. Gordon del, G. Vertue sculp. Copper-engr. See Image Refs. 15571 and 40546.

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