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RefNoCLP/16/54/2
LevelItem
TitleFigures, stamp and imprint by Cromwell Mortimer
Date[1738]
DescriptionTwo figures showing the handle and underside of a small brass stamp described by Mortimer in the accompanying paper. These are accompanied by a print produced by the stamp, reading 'CICAELILI [] HERMIAE . SN', which Mortimer translates as 'Caii Julii Caecili, Hermiae Signum'.

Subject: Antiquities / Printing

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description of an antique metal stamp, in the collection of his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny, F. R. S. &c. being one of the instances, how near the Romans had arrived to the art of printing; with some remarks by C. Mortimer, M. D. fellow of the College of Physicians, and Secr. R. S. Lond'
LanguageLatin
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1737.0066
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8055Mortimer; Cromwell (c 1699 - 1752)c 1699 - 1752
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