Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting the black and orange Etruscan cup owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 34 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.
A writing sheet engraved with vignettes and the large interior space left blank. At the top is a scene with a throne on a platform in the center at the top of a pie-shaped set of stairs with angels standing along the edges on both the right and the left. Behind the line of angels are crowds of people, with the group from the left seemingly walking towards the right. Along the base of the design is a banner held at either end by cherubs blowing horns, inscribed are the words "Come unto me; ye blessed!" Many of the figures in the crowds wear crowns, one holds a harp and another a censer on a chain. The back of the throne is decorated with three connected triangles, points down and with a crown above the oval head rest, rays of light emanating from all sides. On the left margin are vignettes entitled "The birth" and "The wedding" and on the right "The christening" and "The burial". At the foot of the plate is an image of a dragon-like beast from whose mouth streams a banner bearing the engraved text: “There shall be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth". A large oval shape on the dragon's body is left blank
Alternative Title:
Come unto me, ye blessed!
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of publication based on manuscript note at foot of sheet., Lewis Walpole Library impression: Center blank space is filled in with three manuscript poems in black ink entitled 'On resurrection', 'On mortality', and 'On death'. The document is signed in the blank oval on the side of the dragon, "William Lea Yoxall's Christmas piece, December 16th, 1798, Chester"., With three poems entitled “On the Resurrection", "On mortality", and "On death” written in ink at center of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, imprint, and series from Paulson and finished states. Third print in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn., "Price 5 shillings"--Following printmaker's name., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 250. This 3rd Plate of the set, was engraved by Baron, the figure of the girl excepted, which being an afterthought, was added by Hogarth's coarser burin., and On page 93 in volume 1. Sheet 498 x 373 mm.
An etching from a broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762), showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Title supplied from letterpress broadside. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Cf. No. 4009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"Design in two rows of six sections, with 11 figures demonstrating an exercise for the halberd, fortifications in the background, at lower right three halberds, a pike and flag tied together ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Companion print to: Manual for saluting with the half-pike., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: Captain Grose asserts, that in this book only, the exercises of the Halberd is displayed. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes &c, third edit, p. 439., and On page 45 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Forts & fortifications, Saluting, Soldiers, and British
A scene of pandemonia on a public street as animals escape from an Animal Kingdom as people flee the exotic animals -- kangaroos, bulls, elephants, lions, etc. -- including a cart driven by a monkey and pulled by a bull
Alternative Title:
Uproar on Change, or, A trip from Exeter to Charing Cross
Description:
Title and imprint from manuscript annotations on mount., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text from bottom edge., Possibly an imperfect impression of a print entiled "An uproar on Change, or, A trip from Exeter to Charing Cross," which was published in 1828 by Edward McLean. Cf. No. 15603 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., and Mounted on sheet 24.9 x 36.1 cm.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a female figure carrying a crucifix in one hand and a chalise in the other; from the painted glass window in the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 84 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.
"Plate 1: Faith. A female figure, whole-length, holding a crucifix and chalice, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius., Two lines of text engraved below image: Prisca Fides nullo macula ... tartara spernit. Franco Estius., Plate numbered "1" in lower left corner of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design and text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.503., Mounted on page 76 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 31.1 x 12.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.