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1. Portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole [art original]
- Creator:
- Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1784]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- 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).
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole [art original]
2. Portrait of Sr. Robert [art original].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1784]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- 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).
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Portrait of Sr. Robert [art original].
3. [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1723 and 1735]
- Call Number:
- 49 2610
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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,
- Subject (Topic):
- Inkle and Yarico, Cupids, Gods, and Goddesses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].