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Der 'Große Cades' (Impronte Gemmarie dell'Instituto) (Museum August Kestner CC BY-NC-SA) — Provenance/Rights: Museum August Kestner / Christian Tepper (CC BY-NC-SA)

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The 'Great Cades' (Impronte Gemmarie dell'Instituto)

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Events

Created

Who	Tommaso Cades (1772-1850)
When	1831-1849
Where	Rome

Collected

Who	August Kestner (1777-1853)

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Keywords

Daktyliothek

Description

The Museum August Kestner is one of the few institutions to possess a complete copy of the so-called 'great Cades'.
Tommaso Cades, a Roman gem engraver, published this dactyliotheque on his own initiative. August Kestner advised him on the arrangement.
This collection of impressions of ancient and post-ancient gems was created as one of the first 'research projects' of the German Archaeological Institute, co-founded by August Kestner. (AVS)

Former August Kestner Collection, Rome

Material/Technique

Plaster, cardboard, paper

Measurements

Height: 36.5 cm, width: 21 cm (per volume)

Part of

Geschnittene Steine (82)

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Literature

Knüppel, Helge C. (2009): Daktyliotheken. Konzepte einer historischen Publikationsform (Stendaler Winckelmann-Forschungen 8). Ruhpolding, 95-98 Abb. 32
Kockel, Valentin - Graepler, Daniel (2006): Daktyliotheken. Götter & Caesaren aus der Schublade. Antike Gemmen in Abdrucksammlungen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. München, 22-24 Abb. 5

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