Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Giovanna, d'Austria, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1547-1578, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Giovanna, d'Austria, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1547-1578, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 96a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Joan, Baroness Bergavenny, looking left; wearing an English gable hood and a dress decorated with a cross and embroidery and holding a flower in her left hand
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist at bottom of image., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Probably drawn after the painting in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Inlaid on page 96a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Subject (Name):
Bergavenny, Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness, 1375-1435, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, bust in an oval frame three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer
Description:
Title inscribed below portrait between the two ruled frames; subtitle inscribed below framing. and Conjectural date based on other dated drawings of paintings in the Strawberry Hill collection executed by Harding and now held in the British Museum.
Subject (Name):
Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait of John Chute, half length, directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing his hair with powdered wig tied at the nape, wearing coat, high collar and mantle; after a painting by Müntz
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Richard Bentley
Subject (Name):
Chute, John, 1701-1776, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the dramatist Sir William Killigrew; three-quarter length, standing, to the right, right hand under robe; with shoulder length hair, moustache, and short pointed beard; a column and tree in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir William Killigrew
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., and Engraved after a copy of a painting by Anthony van Dyck that was in the Little Library of the Cottage at Strawberry Hill that was misidentified as John Milton.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1, 1796, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of John Ogilby; half length, body turned to the left, with hands crossed at chest, head turned and looking to the right; wearing open-necked white shirt, with long waved hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Plate from: Cornwall, B. Effigies poeticae, or, The portraits of the British poets. London : J. Carpenter and Son, 1824.
Publisher:
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square
Subject (Name):
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the poet John Oldham; half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing plain black doublet with small white collar, and shoulder length hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Plate from: Cornwall, B. Effigies poeticae, or, The portraits of the British poets. London : J. Carpenter and Son, 1824.
Publisher:
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square
Subject (Name):
Oldham, John, 1653-1683, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the poet John Oldham; bust, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing plain black doublet with white collar, and shoulder length hair; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?].
Publisher:
Published May 19, 1792, by E. Harding, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Oldham, John, 1653-1683, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)