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:
Drawing of a bronze statue of a boar, in a seated position facing right, in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
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 170 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
Abstract:
Drawing in a circle, from an antique gem, showing the three Horatii walking together, the one at right carrying a shield and the one at left a dagger, the middle one supported with his arms around the shoulders of the other two. Based on the original intaglia image on cornelian, possibly part of a ring, housed in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., 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 163 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, Horatii (Legendary characters), Warriors, and Jewelry
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, associated name
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds that hung in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill, a group portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, shown three-quarter length and seated beside one another at small work-table, with Lady Anna Horatia at the right embroidering, Lady Charlotte Maria on the left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, center, is holding. There is a pillar to the left and behind with a curtain between and trees beyond. After Reynolds (Mannings 1810).
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 21 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):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Wash drawing showing "The Little Gray Man" on his gibbet-wheel as a monkey seated on the chest of a corpse with the dying lovers, Leopold and Mary-Ann, below. Written on the verso, in ink, three verses from Matthew Gregory Lewis's "Tales of wonder, The little gray man" published in 1801
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by the artist with the date and his initials in lower left corner., In an unidentified hand on verso: "Drawn by Bertie Greatheed w[hen] twenty years old for E[arl] N[...]"., and Trimmed on left and lower edges with loss of text on verso. Remnants of old album mounts on verso.
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.
Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
Alternative Title:
Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
The young Zeluco with a defiant look on his face, crushes his pet bird in his right hand; a bird cage sits on a table to his left, its door standing open. To his right, his tutor looks back at him in horror
As part of the seduction of the wife of his Portuguese neighbor, Zelcuo meets their child while his nurse takes him to a secluded shady seat and pretends to be moved by his beauty
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Paper watermark: Edm [trimmed].