Page 179. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 179 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 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
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2
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still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of the Right Honourable Earl of Winchelsea, drawn from the life by George Vertue, 1725., 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., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 1, page 19. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., A grid has been added in pencil, presumably to assist with proportions while copying. Fourteen small sketches in ink, representing details within the image, are present in the margins., and Mounted on page 19 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 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, 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., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were issued with the work
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Many of the drawings have the sitter's name written below, and most are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see name authority record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de Mme. du Deffand avec la duchesse de Choiseul ... Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1866., and Extra-illustrated: plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
Burlington, Dorothy Boyle, Countess of, 1699-1758, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1758]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
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1
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still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, based on questionable identification of the sitter by curator., Statement of responsibility written in pencil above image. Additional statement written in ink on mounting sheet, in Horace Walpole's hand: Drawn by Lady Dorothy Saville, Countess of Burlington. H.W., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 19 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 41 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Page 198. 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 devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., Mounted above on the same page is a pen and ink drawing by John Gooch: Wm. Cole de Milton juxta Cantabrigiam, A:M:., and Mounted on page 198 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 17. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's name and date written in ink below image., This drawing was sent to Horace Walpole by John Fenn in 1774, with Walpole speculating on the identity of the sitter in his response. For a transcription of the letter and a reproduction of the drawing, see Horace Walpole's letter to John Fenn, 17 September 1774 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 16, pages 232-235)., and Mounted on page 17 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.