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1. [Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1725]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title:
- 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
2. [Geoffrey Chaucer] [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title:
- 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., Signed by the artist in pencil in lower right corner, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: [Thi]s is a portrait of Geofery Chaucer, the father of English poetry, drawn after [an ol]d painting on wood 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Geoffrey Chaucer] [art original]
3. [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1741]
- Call Number:
- 49 2359
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
4. [George Vertue's plans and drawings of the rooms at Wilton House containing the pictures and statues in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1731 and 1756]
- Call Number:
- 49 2378
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawings showing the floor plan and views of the walls on which were hung paintings and against which statues and other artwork were placed. The second drawing is titled "Plan of rooms that contains [sic] the statues & the pictures" in ink above, and the fourth drawing is titled "View of one end of the great room design'd by Inigo Jones" in ink below. The first drawing depicts a large painting by Van Dyck on the wall at a different end the great room, described in the printed text as "a landskip [sic] with dogs, and in the clouds are three angels ...".
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., One of the four drawings with horizontal orientation., Bound by Horace Walpole in his copy of: Gambarini, C. Description of the Earl of Pembroke's pictures. Westminster : A. Campbell, 1731., and Bound in old mottled calf. With slipcase.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Wiltshire., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 and Wilton House (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's plans and drawings of the rooms at Wilton House containing the pictures and statues in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke] [art original].
5. [Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1725]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title:
- 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 a portrait of the Right Honourable Earl of Winchelsea, drawn from the 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1657-1726,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea] [art original].
6. [John Locke] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1704]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2 Box 1
- Collection Title:
- 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., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Locke, John, 1632-1704,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [John Locke] [art original].
7. [Samuel Clarke] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1729]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title:
- 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., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was done from life, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Dr. John Clarke, Rector of St. James Picadilly, drawn after life, by George Vertue., A second, later annotation in Horace Walpole's hand is also present on verso, offering a correction to the earlier note: I cannot help thinking that his name was Samuel & not John., 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Samuel Clarke] [art original].
8. [Sir Edward Nicholas] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2
- Collection Title:
- 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., Date supplied by cataloger., Twenty-six lines of biographical information written in ink on verso, with the contemporary note at top: This is a portrait of Sr. Edward Nicholas, drawn from an old painting on wood 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. Sitter's name written in pencil at bottom of mount: Sr. Edd. Nicholas.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicholas, Edward, Sir, 1593-1669,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sir Edward Nicholas] [art original].