Volume 1, page 53. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Brass term sold at Lord Halifax sale
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., With a "scale of feet" drawn to the left of image, and the note "brass- gilt- with gold" written to the right of image., and Mounted on page 53 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 1, page 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bulla of Pope Boniface IX
Description:
Title from ink inscription below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 77 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.
A father and son of African descent, drawn full-length and holding hands are dressed identically: long blue coats, black hats with the brim pulled down just above the eyes, yellow gloves, and holding brown umbrellas
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below drawing., Drawing after (?) a character in series of prints issued by S.W. Fores: Hyde Park; The little unknown (Plate 2) and The honey-moon (Plate 3)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from ink inscription at top of image., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., With a scale in feet drawn to the right of image. Also with the note "x this part pulld. down by the late Lord -", referring to an "x" marked on the top portion of the depicted structure., and Mounted on page 71 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Tottenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Towers
A collection of six gaming counters or monetary tokens from the gambling houses and clubs of Georgian London. Four were made by John Milton (signed "J. Milton f." or "J.M" on the smaller pieces) with an ace of spades encircled with the quote "Honi soit qui mal y pense", wreathed and crowned. The two others by Milton have on the obverse the initials "S.F." (S. Fiuri, in Bury Street St. Mary Axe) and the date "1 May 1792" and a value of "XII" or "VI". The two other Milton counters are marked "S&L" indicating Smith & Lockwood and the other "JL" for John Lister in Haymarket. Another small token in white metal issued by the "Cocoa Tree" with the value on the obverse "One guinea". The last counter in gilt-brass issued by "Free Mason Tavern" and marked "462' in the center and on the obverse "M. Richold Guina." with laurels above and below
A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince's Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small linked circles around the perimeter. The 1788 token for a box at Covent Garden is the only token with a hole in the center
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of 69 prints, mostly mezzotints issued Carington Bowles and those reissued by Bowles and Carver, as well as some prints issued by Robert Sayers. Also tipped in are a collection of the illustrations from the 4th edition of Thomas Bridges' A burlesque translation of Homer (London, 1797).
Alternative Title:
Facetious
Description:
Title from title page in mss., Bound in red morocco with marble boards with spine title: Facetious., Title page handwritten in mss with collection spelled "colletion"., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatory
Description:
In English., Script: Written in a clear cursive hand with some secretary elements., Watermarks: Paper with rather faint large watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a cartouche, surmounted by staff with cross and letter "M," not certainly identified., Very moderate abbreviation, headlines and marginalia throughout by the scribe., Anonymously translated into English., Accompanied by: By the King's letters patent. A machine on a new principle. Shelved as Mellon MSS 76a., and Binding: Early eighteenth-century English binding of parchment over pasteboards, somewhat unglued and with defects, the backstrip divided into eight compartments by raised bands, the compartments gold-tooled with floral motifs; binder's endpapers watermarked with a fleur-de-lys mark, countermarked "VI," closely related to Heawood 1544, 1552, and 1554.
Mounted on 34 leaves, a collection of 197 hand-written notes addressed to "the door keeper of the House of Lords" or specifically to Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, requesting that the bearer of the ticket or the person named be admitted to the House of Lords in August 1820 for the trial of Queen Caroline, all signed and with wax seals. The collector has mounted on some of the tickets cropped portraits from prints, some trimmed from a mezzotint by John Charles Bromley published in 1832 after the painting of the trial by Sir George Hayter, View of the House of Peers During the Trial of Queen Caroline 1820 (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London). Other portraits have been trimmed from an engraving by John Murray and John Porter also after the same Hayter painting. Still other portraits have been trimmed from the engraving "View of the interior of the House of Lords, during the important investigation in 1820" after the painting by J. Stephanoff and engraved by John George Murray. The collection also includes later tickets for admission to the House of Lords in October and November 1822 and on the final leaf, a collection of autographs of other persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline, such as Thomas Denman, the Lord Chief Justice or William Vizard, Solicitor to the Queen and Also mounted on the sheets are nine subscription forms for various prints published by R. Bowyer, with the signatures of many of the persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline. Some of the subscription cards have been annotated to indicate a request for a print other than the one indicated on the form. All of this suggesting that the creator of this collection was associated with Robert Bowyer’s business as they had access to the subscription tickets
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., The subscription ticket for "View of the interior of the House of Lords during the trial" signed by "Stafford" with two trimmed portraits., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.