[Samuel Butler] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Samuel Butler] [art original].
- Creator
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Title devised by curator.
Date supplied by cataloger.
One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing. - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Christie's, 20 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 306, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 84 x 65 mm, mounted to 16.1 x 14.2 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title
- Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [ca. 1757]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings - Material
- red crayon ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680,
- Subjects
-
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Vertue, George, 1684-1756 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- George Vertue, Samuel Butler. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15701155
- Object ID (OID)
- 33202638