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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Old Briton Man

In Gaius Iulius Caesar, The commentaries of Caesar, William Duncan (translator), London: Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson (printer), 1753, No 26

No 26 (26 of 86 in-Urus figures)
No 25
No 27
Details
  • printing: impression
  • engraving
  • etching
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Old Briton Man (state III/III) (Tonson)
Actors
  • Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson printer : 1753
Places
  • London production place : 1753
Design

Old Briton Man (Tonson) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii in folio (Tonson 1712) ◼

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Michael van der Gucht (printmaker), Ancient Britons (Nutt) Part of Set for Cox's Magna Britannia et Hibernia (Nutt) ◼
  • ⇥ Old Briton Man and Druid (Societas Albritiana) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii (Societas Albritiana 1737) ◼
  • ⇥ Map of Britain and British Peoples (Societas Albritiana) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii (Societas Albritiana 1737) ◼
  • ⇤ Walter Dolle (printmaker), Old Briton Man Part of Set for Sammes's Britannia Antiqua Illustrata ◼
Expert view
Iconography description
  • Britons (Iconclass: 32B2(BRITONS))
Narrative

Caesar's Gallic War (Commentarii de bello Gallico)

Functional context

Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

References
Web resources
  • digital copy - microfilm (InternetArchive)
Credits
Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-01-05 15:51)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-08-26 07:05)

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