Details

Subject(s)

• Princeton University—Numismatic collections [Browse]
• Coins, Greek [Browse]
• Coins, Roman [Browse]

Former owner

• Vernon, George John Warren, 1803-1866 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• casts (sculpture) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

mid-19th century.

Arrangement

Organized by such divisions as 'Imperiali d'Argento'.

Summary note

• Consists of collection of about 8,000 sulfurets of Greek and Roman coins made by Antoine Odelli, active in Rome in the mid-19th century. The collection is in its original wooden boxes. The boxes interlock so as to make a single unit with a lid. Each box holds between 35 and 100 casts. Inside the lid is a engraved label yellow or other colored paper in italic: Antoine Odelli /Artiste Graveur / Grave sur toutes sortes des Pierres Précieuses, / les Armoiries, Sujets, Emblémes. /Chiffres, Noms, Lettres et en Camée. / On trouve encore une grande collection en Souffre de tout les Musés d'Europe. /ROME Rue delle Quatro Fontane No. 11 e 12.
• Alternate printed label in Box LVII: Antoine Odelli, Incisore di Camei ed Intagli presso il quale e ancora una copiosa collezione in scaiola di megaglie, e pictre incise si antiche, che moderne. Rome, Via Felice, No. 143.

Notes

• Medium: Casts (sculpture)
• For information about the history, production, and sale of such collections see: The production and collecting of plaster and sulpher [sic] paste "impronte" as Grand Tour souvenirs in the 18th and 19th centuries by K. Scott Marchand. M. Phil. thesis, St. Andrews, 1998.

Provenance

Originally assembled for Lord Vernon by the Roman artisan Antonio Odelli, better known as a gem engraver.

Source acquisition

In the first printed national general survey of libraries in the US, published in 1851, Princeton is the only library holding a set of sulfurets.

Other title(s)

Sulfur casts of Greek and Roman coins

OCLC

1482052058

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