"Portrait of Henry VIII, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing plumed hat and chains; illustration to Gilbert Burnet's 'Historie of the Reformation' (London, Richard Chiswell, 1681)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effigies Henry VIII and Effigies Henry the Eighth
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.2397., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate to Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, published by R. Chiswell 1681., "Pag. 1"--Lower left corner, preceding imprint statment., and Mounted in white paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Ric: Chiswell, at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Vita Petri Opmeeri per Valer[ius] Andr[eas] Dess[ellius]": 3 p. following dedication. and Engr. t.-p. Printer's device on t.-p. of v. 2. In double columns. Side notes. Many errors in paging.
Publisher:
ex typographeio H. Verdvssii,
Subject (Name):
Andreas, Valerius, 1588-1655, Beyerlinck, Laurentius, 1578-1627, and Opmeer, Petrus, d. 1612, pub
Manuscript on parchment of Naldo Naldi, Oratio ad Andream Vendraminium (doge of Venice 1476-78).
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Gilt edges. Fragment of head endband. The spine is lined with tawed skin between supports. Covered in red silk with traces of four fastenings on each board., One illuminated initial of average quality, 3-line, gold against blue ground with gold filigree. Filled with half-length portrait of the doge dressed in red robes and a red hat against green ground. Dedication, 5 lines, in alternating lines of gold and blue majuscules followed by the first three lines of text in red majuscules., Script: Written in a round humanistic hand, below top line, by the poet Tommaso Baldinotti of Pistoia (1451-1511)., and The margins of f. 1 have been trimmed away from the written space, which was then mounted on another piece of parchment conjugate to the front pastedown; hence, any marginal decoration, which may have included a coat of arms, is now lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Naldi, Naldo,--1439-ca. 1520 and Vendramin, Andrea,--1392-1478
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730-, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Simon du Bois, bust directed to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing a cloak; within oval; and within the oval portrait of another man, possibly Henry Cooke, bust directed to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing a cloak."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Simon Dubois and Cooke
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below small portrait within oval of main portrait: Cooke., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., "Vol. III, p. 118."--Upper right corner., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Mounted on page 131 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 5.8 x 4.1 cm., and Imperfect; only the small portrait of Cooke is present, the rest of the print having been trimmed away.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Du Bois, Simon 1632-1706 and Cooke, Henry, 1642-1700
Pen and ink drawing depicting Thomas Carve, (1590-1672?), chaplain to the British forces in Germany, historian and apostolic at Vienna. Carve is shown seated, half-length facing slightly left with a heavy beard and wearing cleric robes; behind him a curtain held with a cord with a tassel on the right. His right hand crosses over his lap and holds a closed volume
Description:
Title from caption inscribed by artist below image. and Possibly by John Brand. Cf. Pen and ink copy attributed to John Brand after an original engraving by M. Vliemayr first published in 1651 and republished in 1795 by Willliam Richardson.
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.