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10. Nicholas Stone Senior Eqn. Mr. Mason to [K.J. the R. C.?]. [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Oval drawing of Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647), leading sculptor, master mason, and architect, in London in the mid-17th century
- Description:
- Title from inscription in ink, below image., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, Sculptors, and Architects
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nicholas Stone Senior Eqn. Mr. Mason to [K.J. the R. C.?]. [art original]
11. Paul Vansomer [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.34
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Paul van Somer (1576-1621), Flemish painter and printmaker
- Alternative Title:
- Paul van Somer
- Description:
- George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756., Title from item., and Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p.92.
- Subject (Name):
- Somer, Paul van, 1576-1621,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Flemish
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paul Vansomer [art original].
12. Richard Sackville Baron Buckhurst and Earl Dorset [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1799]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H263 no. 1 Box D125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait, drawn in an oval, of Richard Sackville. He is wearing 17th century dress with a high collar. He is holding in his left hand the tassles of part of his clothing
- Description:
- George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853., Title from inscription in graphite pencil on verso of image: drawn by G.P. Harding. Richard Sackville Baron Buckhurst Earl Dorset after a [scarce] print by Simon Pass. From a scarce print by Simon Pass., Signed in ink lower left of image: GPH 1799., Inscribed in graphite pencil lower right: Richard Sackville, 3d earl of Dorset., and Inscription in graphite pencil on verso lower right: Drawing by George Perfect Harding: "GPH 1799 after a print by Simon Pass.
- Subject (Name):
- Sackville, Richard, Baron Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset, 1589-1624,
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians and English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Richard Sackville Baron Buckhurst and Earl Dorset [art original]
13. [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1723 and 1735]
- Call Number:
- 49 2610
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by Vertue
- Description:
- In English, some Latin., Title from Hazen., Leaves 14, 15 lacking images?, Binding: red morocco, now rebacked., Note on first blank in Horace Walpole's hand: "This was Mr. Vertue's, & most of the Drawings are by Him." Followed by a note in another hand: "Knowley Inner Library B.e. S.4. No. 21.", On front pastedown: Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1)., Also on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate of Lord Derby on front pastedown, with his shelf mark "3.B"., and Red morocco, now rebacked. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Subject (Name):
- Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
- Subject (Topic):
- Inkle and Yarico, Cupids, Gods, and Goddesses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
14. [Francesco Cleyn] [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
- Alternative Title:
- Francis Cleyn
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 127., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and German
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Francesco Cleyn] [art original]
15. [Henry Cornelius Vroom] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.20
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566-1640), Flemish born painter who worked briefly in England. Best known for his marine painting and designs for tapestries illlustating the great English naval victories of 1588 over the Spanish Armada
- Alternative Title:
- Hendrick Cornelius Vroom
- Description:
- Title and artist from engraving based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England. Engraving by T. Chambars identifies artist as: Is. Oliver pinxt., Slight corrects in brown ink., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Vroom in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 1, opp. p. 144., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz, 1566-1640,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Flemish
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Henry Cornelius Vroom] [art original].
16. [Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1768]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents V568 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 46
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Drawing full-length King Richard III and his Queen, in robes and crowned
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned., Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso: The original drawing by Vertue of Richard III, and his Queen, described and engraved in Mr. Walpole's Historic doubts., Sale text: A curious pen and ink drawing of King Richard III and his Queen, copied from painted glass, by Vertue, described and engraved in Mr. Walpole's Historic Doubts., Formerly hung in at Strawberry Hill, in the blue breakfast room., Image later engraved by Charles Grignion for: Horace Walpole's Historic doubts on the life & reign of King Richard the Third, 1768, opposite p. 103., and No. 118 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485,, and Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485,
- Subject (Topic):
- Kings and Queens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen] [art original].