Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Antony Wood, the biographer of Oxford, drawn after a painting by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Drawing of a chimney piece and mantel, with scale, possibly for Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., On verso, in upper right corner are some faded and almost indistinguishable words., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fireplaces, Design and construction, and Chimneypieces
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three butterflies/moths and a beetle, and the other depicting three insects (a moth on a leaf, a butterfly, and a crane fly).
Alternative Title:
Three insects
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 7 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and center of plate, which probably contained engraved lettering, has been trimmed away., and On leaf 61 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Volume 1, page 65. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Scale within a banner drawn in upper left corner., Portions of the drawing were done on smaller pieces of paper integrated into the larger sheet; the image of the clock is drawn on a sheet 65 x 27 mm that is pasted onto the larger sheet at the center of the composition, while the image of the top of the structure is drawn on a sheet 72 x 32 mm that is pasted into an area at the top of the composition where the larger sheet has been cut away., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 65 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.
Oak veneered with marquetry of ebony, rosewood, brass, copper, pewter, and tortoiseshell; with gilded mounts
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A remarkably fine Old Boule Coffer, a splendid specimen of this work, at an early period, the front elaborately finished with tortoiseshell ground work, massive or-molu mountings, masque handles, chased rosette corners, and lined with blue silk, on a pedestal en-suite, with richly worked boule back and stand for porcelaine., and Also available as a digital reproduction.