A sketch of the coat of arms of Richard the 13th Earl of Warwick with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Beauchamp, Richard de, Earl of Warwick, 1382-1439.
A sketch of the coat of arms of "Richard Nevil Erle of Warwick", with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 11" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Edward Woodville with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 70" in upper left corner. On the verso, a smaller and much less detailed sketch of the coat of arms of his brother Richard Earl of Rivers also with a brief biographical note
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., On verso: drawing of the Coat of arms of Richard Earl of Rivers., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Woodville, Edward, Sir, -1488. and Rivers, Richard Woodville, Earl, 1405-1469.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir John Fastolf with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 50" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Walter Mauny (Manny) with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A design proposed for the monument to Roger Townshend in Westminster Abbey; sent in Horace Walpole's letter to the deceased's mother Lady Townshend, Friday 21 September 1759. In his letter he attributes the design to Richard Bentley and acknowledges authorship of the epitaph: "To the memory of Roger Townshend her youngest son slain in the service of his country at ... 1759, Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend dedicates this marble. Lov'd Son, adieu! Tho' from a Mother's eyes fond tears you call, She thanks you, that without a blush they fall. Lady Townshend did not use this design but instead a design by Robert Adam
Alternative Title:
To the memory of Roger Townshend
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: GR., and For transcription of the letter along with a reproduction of the image, see: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 40, p. 166-67.
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., 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.
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., Signed by the artist in pencil in lower right corner, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: [Thi]s is a portrait of Geofery Chaucer, the father of English poetry, drawn after [an ol]d painting on wood 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.
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