Oak Cabinet Containing Sixty Drawers of Gem Impressions in Red Sulphur

1766-1776

76.2 cm 50.8 cm 35.6 cm

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This oak cabinet contains red sulphur impressions of cameos and intaglios by James Tassie (1735-1799), modeler and portrait medallionist. Apart from some additions at the end of the series, the numbering of the cabinet's contents corresponds to the "Catalogue of Impressions in...

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Good's Cameo Corner, London, by 1933 (?)[1]; purchased by Dr. Thomas R. Boggs and Kate Newell Doggett Boggs, 1933 (?)[2]; inherited by Mrs. Thomas R. Boggs (Kate Newell Doggett Boggs), 1938; given to Walters Art Museum, 1942.[1] Receipt found within a drawer in 42.1449 from Good's Cameo Corner, London, dated October 19, 1933. Included on this bill of sale was a ""Collection of gem casts / in cabinet"".[2] The receipt detailed above is not made out to a named individual.
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