Designs on gems that were antique back in 1785. Plates from “A Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems, in the Collections of The Right Honourable Earl Percy, The Honourable C.F. Greville, and T.M. Slade, Esquire” which was published by John Boydell in London.

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“Triptolemus, in Sardonic Orient and dactyliotheca” Honorable C. F. Greville.” Page 17. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t2h732195&view=1up&seq=17
“Ostriades, in Carniola, and Dactyl.” Honorable C. F. Greville. Page 21. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t2h732195&view=1up&seq=21
“Chimaera, Egypt in Carniola, and Dactyl.” Honorable C. F. Greville. Page 27. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t2h732195&view=1up&seq=27&size=200
Bacchus et Ariadne. Sculp. Sardonice, E. Dactyl Honorable C. F. Greville. Published in London by John Boydell on September 12, 1782. Jonathan Spilsbury sculp. Image 59 of A collection of fifty prints from antique gems in the collections of the Right Honourable Earl Percy, the Honourable C.F. Greville, and T.M. Slade, esquire. Mr. John Spilsbury, engraver. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t2h732195&view=1up&seq=59&size=200

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