Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Harold
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Page 165. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
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still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in ink on verso. and Mounted on page 165 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).
Volume 1, page 39. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lake Bishop Bath Wells
Description:
Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 39 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Title and artist name written in ink below image., Probably a copy of the original portrait or an engraving done by Giovanni Battista Catenaro. For the engraving, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2394., Date supplied by cataloger., "Ob." and "Aeta." are written in lower right corner of sheet, but the date of the portrait and the age of the sitter have not been added., and Mounted on leaf 44 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
Description:
Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
Subject (Name):
Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 1, page 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon.", Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 37 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from contemporary manuscript annotation in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date based on that of the printed work for which this design was made., Original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to v.1 of: Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales sex regum Angliae. Oxonii [Oxford] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719-1722., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on verso; this contemporary annotation faces upward when sheet is folded in half as intended., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted below another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 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).
Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted above drawing., Attribution to Sir Edward Walpole from Horace Walpole's note on preceding leaf in the same volume: Verses and drawings by my brother Sr. E. Walpole ..., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted above another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 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).