On recto, two men walk to the left in a wood with guns. The man behind (right) holds his gun by the barrel pointed towards his companion's posterior; he wears colored spectacles, a top hat, and is smoking a cigar. The man in front (left) looks back towards his companion as he holds his rifle by the butt, the barrel pointed over his shoulder at his companion's face. The lines below: "I never likes to go out with a man as don't carry his gun like a sportsman." "Not I. I'm always wery particular.!" and On verso, a pencil drawing of two men (dustmen?) conversing as one points to the donkey that he holds by the reins
Alternative Title:
I never likes to go out with a man as do'nt [sic] carry his gun like a sportsman
Description:
Title written in ink at top of sheet on the recto; alternative title from dialogue written in ink below image., Attribution to Henry Heath and approximate date of production inferred from an etching (in reverse) of similar design that appears with nearly identical text in Henry Heath's series "Sporting sketches". For a description of the design for which this may be the original drawing, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1951,0411.4.29. For plate of four designs of which this is one part, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 834.00.00.30+., and With pencil sketch on verso depicting a dustman talking to a man with a donkey.
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Hunting, Rifles, Smoking, and Sunglasses
SH Contents C442 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 41
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Copy of a portrait of Sir John Perrot, for Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Description:
Title from note in Horace Walpole's hand, written in ink on the back of the frame: Sr. John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland., Attributed to Chambars by Walpole in the Vertue notebooks. See Walpole Society, 1937-38, xxvi, p.62., Possibly commissioned circa 1763. See Walpole's letter to Bishop Lyttleton, 16 October 1762. See 1983 Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 43, p. 384n., The original on which this drawing is based was used by Valentine Green for his mezzotint print published in Jany. 1, 1776, from a copy made by George Powle. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits, v. iii, p. 453., and Thomas Chambars, (ca. 1724-1789), English artist.
Drawing of Sir Nathaniel Bacon's based on his self-portrait in oil, circa 1618-20.
Alternative Title:
Sir Nathaniel Bacon
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, 1762, v.1, opp. p. 163., Drawing attributed to Vertue., and Thomas Chambars (1724-1789), English artist.
Volume 1, page 25. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir F. Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon
Description:
Title inscribed in ink in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 25 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.
Opposite page 199. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Sir John Fielding, half-length to the right, sitting in a chair; holding a book or papers in his left hand; wearing a hat
Alternative Title:
Sir John Fielding
Description:
Title from note in ink at bottom of sheet., Statement of responsibility written in pencil in upper right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Placement instruction "199" in pencil in lower left corner., and Mounted opposite page 199 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Half-length, oval portrait of Sir John Smith, scholar, diplomat, and political theorist, looking slightly left and wearing a hat and fur-trimmed coat; within a decorative border and frame ending with a coat of arms. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1744
Alternative Title:
Sir John Smith
Description:
Title from inscription in ink on verso of drawing., Also written on the mount under the drawing in block lettering: Smith., Unsigned., The mount is probably by H. Gravelot based on similar signed drawing in the collection., After Hans Holbein the Younger. See published print., Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV., and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Title from item., Date based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 151 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Date based on Sir Philip Sydenham's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 151 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait head, in profile to the left; with short hair and a pointed beard
Alternative Title:
Sir Thomas Wyat the Younger and Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the copy by Milbourn that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 115 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Wyatt, Thomas, 1521?-1554, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)