Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on verso; this contemporary annotation faces upward when sheet is folded in half as intended., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted below another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted above drawing., Attribution to Sir Edward Walpole from Horace Walpole's note on preceding leaf in the same volume: Verses and drawings by my brother Sr. E. Walpole ..., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted above another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Volume 1, page 29. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Samuel Daniel
Description:
Title from inscription in pencil above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Below title is written "pub. 1609"; in lower right corner is written "gravd. by TCockson[?] sculp.", Likely drawn after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson on the title page to: Daniel, S. The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke. Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 29 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.
Opposite page 199. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
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1
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Abstract:
Portrait of Sir John Fielding, half-length to the right, sitting in a chair; holding a book or papers in his left hand; wearing a hat
Alternative Title:
Sir John Fielding
Description:
Title from note in ink at bottom of sheet., Statement of responsibility written in pencil in upper right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Placement instruction "199" in pencil in lower left corner., and Mounted opposite page 199 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Volume 1, page 31. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Sir William Sidney and Sr. William Sydney
Description:
Title from note below image, in ink over pencil. Sitter's name with alternative spelling is written in pencil in upper right corner: Sr. William Sydney., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 31 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.
Volume 1, page 21. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Thomas Cavendish, navigator
Description:
Title from contemporary notes below image., Date supplied by cataloger., With a partly legible pencil annotation in upper right corner: Ao. 1594 [...?]., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 21 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.
Opposite title page of Poems by Anna Chamber. Loose pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
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1
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still image
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Portrait head, in profile to the left
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Thomas Kirgate's death date; this drawing was presumably inserted in the volume before it was sold at Kirgate's sale following his death in 1810., Sheet numbered "24" in pencil in lower right., and Mounted opposite title page of Poems by Anna Chamber, in a volume with the binder's title: Loose pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Temple, Anne Grenville-Temple, Countess, 1709-1777,
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
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2
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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.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
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2
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still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of the Right Honorable Edward Harlay Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, the great collecter, drawn from life by George Vertue, 1725., 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.