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Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/9248be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/d17a874b-1191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "229
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).")
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Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/9248be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/d77a874b-1191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "229
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).")
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Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/9248be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/d17a874b-1191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "229
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).")
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Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/9248be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/d77a874b-1191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "229
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
*** Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).")
Lot 229
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph, hand-coloured aquatint panorama with boxwood drum, W.Sams, 1822.
Hammer Price: £950
Description
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
⁂ Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).
Description
Sams (W., publisher) Roman Triumph. Pompey, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, numbered segments 4-35 only on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip (lacking first three segments 1-3 but with engraved imprint at end), c.130 x 4845mm. (of 4880mm.), rather soiled and stained at beginning, segment 4 defective at head and frayed at foot, a couple of short tears to head of 12, lacking portion from sky of 33, all repaired, otherwise clean and bright, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed hand-coloured aquatint pictorial label, drum c.170mm. tall, top lacking portion at edge and base chipped, [Abbey, Life 489, without drum; Bobins 1311], W.Sams, 1822.
⁂ Rare panorama depicting Pompey's third triumph in 61 B.C. after his successes in the East, particularly his victory of Mithridates. The strip processes from left to right but is numbered right to left and features trumpeters, sacrificial oxen, standard bearers, mounted & foot soldiers, carts of booty, camels, models of conquered cities, captives, musicians, and a chariot pulled by elephants carrying the victorious general. It was advertised as being with a descriptive key but no copy of this has been found.
The Abbey copy consisted of sections 1-33 only and lacked the drum. We have traced a single copy at auction, in 1973, but this was also defective. WorldCat records one copy only (Princeton).
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