Volume 1, page 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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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.
Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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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
Page 202. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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2
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still image
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Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in ink on verso. This note is written between two small drawings of heads in profile, one in ink wash and one in pencil. and Tipped in as page 202 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 1, page 13. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Friar Bacon
Description:
Title written in block letters at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 13 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 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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.
Title and artist name written in ink below image., Probably a copy of the original portrait or an engraving done by Giovanni Battista Catenaro. For the engraving, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2394., Date supplied by cataloger., "Ob." and "Aeta." are written in lower right corner of sheet, but the date of the portrait and the age of the sitter have not been added., and Mounted on leaf 44 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from contemporary manuscript annotation in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date based on that of the printed work for which this design was made., Original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to v.1 of: Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales sex regum Angliae. Oxonii [Oxford] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719-1722., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 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 wash drawing of the Rhode Island coastline near Newport, with a sailboat in the distance on the left
Alternative Title:
Scituate Beach and Purgatory from the Hanging Rocks near Newport Rhode Island
Description:
Title and date supplied by artist in lower right. and Artist identified by W.S. Lewis in a pencilled note in lower margin: "By Anthony St. John Baker, given to ABL April 1959 by Doll Hamill".
Volume 1, page 67. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Rochester Bridge with dimensions
Description:
Title inscribed within banner at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Additional measurements of the bridge are given in notes on either side of title., and Mounted on page 67 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 51. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Figure of an ancient pair of buttons
Description:
Title from ink inscription above image., Signed with initials and dated in lower right corner; the artist "K. Mn." or "K Mx." is unidentified., and Mounted on page 51 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.