- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Richard Gibson, called Dwarf Gibson, in doublet, holding a bow in his left hand and arrows on his right
- Description:
- George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Gibson, Richard, 1605/1615?-1690,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwarfs, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gibson the dwarf [art original]
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- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.13
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Francis Place (1647-1728), English draughtsman, printmaker and potter
- Description:
- Title from inscription in ink in Horace Walpole's hand[?] on mount: Mr. Francis Place of York., Sheet with image mounted on separate sheet with pencil border around sheet with image., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Place in: Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p. 87., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Place, Francis, 1647-1728,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Francis Place of York [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.15
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of John Riley (1646-1691), fashionable English portrait painter
- Description:
- Title from the inscription in ink, on top of sheet., Inscription in pencil on verso: Mr. Riley painted this himself. Its in [the] possession of Mr. Leigh in Adlington in. 56170., "R" stamped on verso, lower right with "3/6" written in pencil above., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Riley in: Anecdotes of painting in England ... / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1762], v. 3, opp. p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Riley, John, 1646-1691,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Riley from a picture at Adlington in Cheshire [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of William Lodge (1649-1689), English born painter, etcher and landscape draughtsman
- Alternative Title:
- William Lodge, Gent
- Description:
- Title, caption and Inscription in ink, in Horace Walpole's hand., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Lodge in: Catalogue of engravers / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p. 87., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Lodge, William, 1649-1689.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Wm. Lodge, Gent was a clerk in the Pipe office Gray's Inn / [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Edward Courtney, first Earl of Devonshire, standing in front of a ruined tower
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., 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 at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 128., The engraving which is based on this drawing states: "from an original by Sr. Antonio More at the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn." Cf. Anecdotes of painting., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Devonshire, Edward Courtenay, Earl of, 1526-1556,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Edward Courtney, Earl of Devonshire] [art original].