Half-length, oval portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, an English nobleman, was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry. Created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1750
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Portrait is unsigned., and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Titles etched below images., Date from item., Place of publication derived from language of text and subject., Sheet trimmed., In top margin: London ; Plate VII.e., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Published as the Act directs
Caption title., Title continues: which was committed on Sunday last, in White Post Lane, near East Ham, in the county of Essex, upon Richard Moss, a youth only 14 years of age, who was robbed and murdered by a footpad., In one column with title and woodcut above; no rules or onamental type present., Date of publication conjectured based on date of the crime 8 September 1782. The murderer was executed on 10 March 1783., First line: Sunday last the following bloody murder was committed upon the body of an unhappy youth, without the least provocation ..., Mounted on leaf 33. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Essex
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Deaths head, Skull & crossbones, Hourglasses, and Banners
Inscription: title written in unknown contemporary hand at bottom of sheet, below image., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Volume 1, page 12.2. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seal of Edward I showing the king riding a horse to the right, wearing armor and a flat helmet; he carries a sword in his right hand and holds a shield with three lions passant guardant in his right hand. The horse caparison is also decorated front and back with three lions passant guardant
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 12.2 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Volume 1, page 12.2. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seal of Richard I showing the king riding a horse to the right, wearing chainmail armor and a helmet; he carries a sword in his right hand and holds in his left hand a shield on which a lion rampant is visible
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 12.2 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Title written in pencil by unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, below image., Inscribed in pencil on verso: "No. M"., Inscribed in pencil on verso: "A print of this is added by Bedford to his copy of the Description 1784, p. 82. It is marked, "Drawn engraved + published May 4, 1798, by W. Bawtree" ... See SH accounts, opp. p. 128.", From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Five columns of verse below title: Behold my friends with eager eyes a mukle boot of wondrous size! ..., and Temporary local subject terms: British lion -- Jack-boots -- Orders: star of the Garter.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Page 169. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Nobody
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotations in ink on verso; the word "Nobody" is scribbled lightly in pencil above image. and Tipped in as page 169 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).