Drawing of William Lodge (1649-1689), English born painter, etcher and landscape draughtsman
Alternative Title:
William Lodge, Gent
Description:
Title, caption and Inscription in ink, in Horace Walpole's hand., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Lodge in: Catalogue of engravers / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p. 87., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
Alternative Title:
Drawings by Vertue
Description:
In English, some Latin., Title from Hazen., Leaves 14, 15 lacking images?, Binding: red morocco, now rebacked., Note on first blank in Horace Walpole's hand: "This was Mr. Vertue's, & most of the Drawings are by Him." Followed by a note in another hand: "Knowley Inner Library B.e. S.4. No. 21.", On front pastedown: Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1)., Also on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate of Lord Derby on front pastedown, with his shelf mark "3.B"., and Red morocco, now rebacked. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
Drawing of Edward Courtney, first Earl of Devonshire, standing in front of a ruined tower
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 128., The engraving which is based on this drawing states: "from an original by Sr. Antonio More at the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn." Cf. Anecdotes of painting., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
Alternative Title:
Francis Cleyn
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 127., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566-1640), Flemish born painter who worked briefly in England. Best known for his marine painting and designs for tapestries illlustating the great English naval victories of 1588 over the Spanish Armada
Alternative Title:
Hendrick Cornelius Vroom
Description:
Title and artist from engraving based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England. Engraving by T. Chambars identifies artist as: Is. Oliver pinxt., Slight corrects in brown ink., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Vroom in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 1, opp. p. 144., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of John Baptist Monnoyer (bap.1636-1699), French-born painter educated in Antwerp, known for his floral interior decorations, fashionable in France in the second half of the 17th century. He moved to England in 1690 where he continued to specialize in decorating royal and grand houses
Alternative Title:
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Description:
Title based on title of engraving in Anecdotes of painting in England., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Monoyer in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, p. 116. Vertue's drawing is based on a chalk drawing by Sir Godfrey Kneller, now in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
Description:
Title devised be cataloger., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life., Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit., Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Subject (Name):
Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647, and Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
Drawing of Theobalds framed by two pencilled lines and mounted on a secondary sheet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Ms. note left unmounted., Drawing attributed to Vertue in pencil on the mount above. Identification from early sales catalog which has been questioned by former owner. Suggested alternative identification: Oatlands Palace (Surrey) from a painting by Van Somer in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.