[Anthony Wood] [art original].Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist[between 1720 and 1756?]zxxTitle devised by curator.Date supplied by cataloger.Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Antony Wood, the biographer of Oxford, drawn after a painting by George Vertue.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.