- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 3 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, "Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he's gone out to dinner. Oh dear me, well your mistress will do just the same. & She's out Sir. How provoking. Well, I'll set down by the fire till they come home. I'm sorry to tell you that that's gone out to." Upper right: A soldier is shot by a man (Turk?) hiding in the tall grass and pointing a rifle. Lower half, left: In a pulpit a bald minister with spectacles rants and he holds up a Bible in his left hand ready to throw it at the sleeping congregation below, " Ye sleepy crew if ye wont hear the owrd of God ye shall feel it." Lower right: A simpleton in artist attire holds up a piece of paper with a stick figure drawing and says, "Don't you think I improve."
- Description:
- Title from captions written each image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Butlers, Clergy, Congregations, Soldiers, British, and Sleeping
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]
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- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.26
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Adriaen Hanneman (c.1604-1671), Dutch portrait painter, who lived in London from 1626 until around 1640 when he returned to The Hague. He had a long career painting portraits of exiled English royalists and the Dutch court as well as other wealthy residents of The Hague
- Description:
- Title from inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: Adrian Hanneman Pictor, Drawing that was later used for an engraving published 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. 120., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Hanneman, Adriaen, 1604-1671,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Adrian Hanneman Pictor [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.33
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), born in The Hague, immigrated to England when he was 17 and remained there, active as a landscape painter of views of England in the western parts landscapes, chiefly in the Italian manner
- Description:
- 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 129., Title from item., Signed in ink, lower right: ob. 1704 Aeta '49. G.V., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right below monogram: poss. Mr. Dahl pict., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: se ipse pinx., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Diest, Adriaen van, 1655-1704,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Adrian Van-Diest [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.23
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published 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. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Belcamp, Jan van, ca. 1610-1653,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Belcom paint [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616), Dutch painter, draftsman, poet, and sculptor, born in Gouda in the Netherlands, moved to London in 1573 where he painted portraits until his return to the Netherlands in 1581
- Alternative Title:
- Cornelis Ketel painter
- Description:
- Title from item., 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. 137., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Ketel, Cornelis, 1548-1616,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Corn. Ketel. painter [art original].
- Creator:
- Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1763?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits V568 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Bust of George Vertue with cap, in oval, looking left, after oil painting by Richardson
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Plate originally issued preceding "The life of George Vertue" in: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers. Strawberry-Hill : 1763., and Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Vertue, engraver aetat. L. ann. MDCCXXXVIII / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Richard Gibson, called Dwarf Gibson, in doublet, holding a bow in his left hand and arrows on his right
- Description:
- George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Gibson, Richard, 1605/1615?-1690,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwarfs, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gibson the dwarf [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Henry Cook (1642-1700), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
- Alternative Title:
- Henry Cooke history painter and Henry Cooke
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image., 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 118., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Cooke, Henry, 1642-1700,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > H. Cooke history painter [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Egbert van Hemskirk, Dutch artist, who was also active in England
- Alternative Title:
- Egbert van Hemskirk
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Drawing that was later used in an engraving of John Riley: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Horace Walpole. London : J. Dodsley, 1782, v. 3, p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hemskirke Drol-painter [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Henry Stone (ca. 1655-1726), English painter, son of Nicholas Stone English sculptor and architect
- Description:
- Title from inscription in ink below image., 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, 1762, v. 2, opp. p. 31., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Stone, Henry, 1616-1653,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Henry Stone painter [art original]