Volume 1, page 21. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Thomas Cavendish, navigator
Description:
Title from contemporary notes below image., Date supplied by cataloger., With a partly legible pencil annotation in upper right corner: Ao. 1594 [...?]., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 21 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.
Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, with a pained expression on his face
Description:
Title inscribed beneath central image., Attributed to George Cruikshank., Date inferred from the 1827 publication date of George Cruikshank's Illustrations of time, plate 3 of which includes a smaller version of the central image. Cf. No. 15472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Image also used in Plate 3 of Cruikshank's 'Illustrations of Time'; the attempt to 'wash a black man white' was a traditional example of an impossible task., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1821".
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
Page 173. 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., Artist's name and date written in ink in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 173 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
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Antony Wood, the biographer of Oxford, drawn after a painting 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.
Page 170.1. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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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., On verso is another pencil drawing: [Crest of a Saracen's head in profile crowned]., and Mounted on page 170.1 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).
Page 193. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on page 193 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).
Page 170. 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., On verso is another pencil drawing: [Caricature of a woman and small profile of a man]., Mounted on page 170 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)., and Temporary local subject terms: Crest of Horace Walpole.
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., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of the Right Honorable Edward Harlay Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, the great collecter, drawn from 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 9. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 9 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.