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1. The habit of an English gentleman about 1660 [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 73. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title written in ink in upper left corner., Date supplied by cataloger., With four lines of verse in ink to the left of the depicted figure: Time swift doth run, to judgment thou must come; prepare for Death lest hee send theto woe & miserie., Also with nineteen numbered notes in ink below image, describing various aspects of the depicted figure's dress., and Mounted on page 73 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):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The habit of an English gentleman about 1660 [art original].
2. [A very stout lady] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 174. 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 174 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 (Topic):
- Clothing & dress and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A very stout lady] [art original].
3. [Front and back of figure] [art original].
- Creator:
- Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1892?]
- Call Number:
- 81 776C v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite signature l3. Coryat's crudities.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Front and back of figure] [art original].