Portrait of Henry Cook (1642-1700), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Alternative Title:
Henry Cooke history painter and Henry Cooke
Description:
Title from inscription below image., 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 118., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Egbert van Hemskirk, Dutch artist, who was also active in England
Alternative Title:
Egbert van Hemskirk
Description:
Title from caption below image., Drawing that was later used in an engraving of John Riley: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Horace Walpole. London : J. Dodsley, 1782, v. 3, p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Quarter-length portrait of Henry Seymour Conway after Gainsborough, framed by oval design. Conway is in uniform, turned to the left with head facing and looking to the right
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image., Date from unverified data from local record., Copy of painting by Thomas Gainsborough., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait of Henry Stone (ca. 1655-1726), English painter, son of Nicholas Stone English sculptor and architect
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., 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, 1762, v. 2, opp. p. 31., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Henry Tilson (1659-1695), English portrait painter, pupil of Sir Peter Lely
Description:
Title from item., 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 103., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title, artist, and date from note inscribed in black ink below image: W. Lock, March 1781. The subject fro this drawing is Hercules chasing the Napions, but the drawing was left unfinished & Hercules does not appear., W. Lock = WIlliam Lock the 2nd., 1767-1847., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 382.2. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of thirteen heraldic devices, each identified with the associated family or person. In the first row are four knots, below which are three rows of cognizances and badges
Description:
Title written in ink above image., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., "Plate II"--Written in upper left corner or sheet., and Mounted on page 382.2 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
A solicitor approaches a clergyman and doctor; over his head hovers a demonic creature holding a long legal document. The rotund clergyman, looking very displeased, is flanked by the head of an ass peering over his shoulder and a small dog urinating on his voluminous clerical robes. A smug looking doctor carrying a walking stick has one hand upturned pinching his index finger and thumb as if to gesture holding something while a young boy trails afterward holding a written prescription in his extended arm. A picture hanging on the wall depicts a crude drawing of a hanged man
Description:
Title from text inscribed above image., Date suggested by curator., and For further information, consult library staff.
Horace Walpole's sketch of Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massareene, whom he met in Paris several times in November 1765 and January 1766. He is caricatured here holding a bouquet of flowers, walking on his toes
Alternative Title:
Caricature of Lord Massareene
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts., Title from item; unsigned., and Date based on similar drawing by Walpole in The Lewis Walpole Library: Caricature of an unknown woman
Volume 1, opposite page 95. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Mary, Princess Royal of England and Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau by marriage; half-length, turned to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace
Alternative Title:
Mary Princess of Orange, Countess of Nassau
Description:
Title written below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 95 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].