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1. [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1741]
- Call Number:
- 49 2359
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
2. [Medal of Edward VI] [art original].
- Creator:
- 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 medal in the Library at Strawberry Hill, with the bust-length image of King Edward VI with crown on the obverse and on the reverse his coat of arms
- 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 99 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):
- Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Medal of Edward VI] [art original].
3. [Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [art original].
- Creator:
- 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 both sides of a silver medal owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Library at Strawberry Hill. On the obverse is a bust of Pope Gregory XIII, in profile to the left; on the reverse an allegorical image of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, with an angel holding a crucifix and sword over the bodies of men and women cowering in fear
- 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 102 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 (Geographic):
- French.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572, Massacres, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Medal of Pope Gregory XIII on the massacre of St. Barthelemi] [art original].