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:
Wash drawing of an ossuaria located in the Library at Strawberry Hill, decorated with two rams heads, a festoon with birds above and below, and a Latin inscription
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 90 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.
Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Title devised by cataloger., Designed by Richard Bentley in 1757 and probably engraved by Grignion. See Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, page xxv., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted on page 3.
Publisher:
Horace Walpole
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
Jackson, John Baptist, 1701-1780?, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.18++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Left plate of a triptych; a procession of people, left to right, with two pairs of men in the foreground, a bearded man to left, giving a coin to a woman who carries a child, another man standing behind him, under the arches of a large building, a woman on the right, looking eagerly ahead; mountains and a pyramidical obelisk in the background."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumque ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger based on title of original painting by Titian., Place of publication based on known location of J.B. Jackson., Six lines of Latin text in lower left corner of image: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq[ue] ..., and One of a series of twenty-four chiaroscuro woodcuts after seventeen paintings in Venice: Opera selectiora. For description of series, see British Museum online cat. registration number: 1918,0713.28.
"Sacrifice of Iphigenia, kneeling in front of the altar, and about to be beheaded by the torturer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date burnished from plate in lower right corner., "Cum priuilegio Regis christ.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in Latin in three columns below image: Cum foret immiti iamiam mactanda Diana Heu miseri ante oculos Iphigenia patris ..., and Watermark.
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:
Wash drawing depicting the two ossuaria that were kept by Horace Walpole in the garden at Strawberry Hill. The sides of each ossuarium are decorated with images of natural and supernatural creatures; each also has an inscription in Latin
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 203 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.
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
Alternative Title:
Fari quae sentiat
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Motto on shield: Fari quae sentiat., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 5 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):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Coats of arms, Antelopes, and Deer
Depiction of a multi-quartered shield with sixteen coats of arms, surmounted by a crown and with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" written in a banner beneath
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole's pedigree
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Date of production based on acquisition date.
Title from note in previous owner's hand., Date of matrix (1406) from British Museum online catalogue., Taken from a brass matrix formerly owned by Horace Walpole., Inscription: s: ric :cletherowe : admiralli: occidentalis: anglie., Seal matrix: British Museum 'Cat. of Seals', no. 1042; 'Archaeologia', xlvi, p. 369., and Seal matrix: British Museum online catalogue; registration no. 1858,0629.1.