Portrait of Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616), Dutch painter, draftsman, poet, and sculptor, born in Gouda in the Netherlands, moved to London in 1573 where he painted portraits until his return to the Netherlands in 1581
Alternative Title:
Cornelis Ketel painter
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 at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 137., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Cornelis Poelenburgh (1594 or 1595-1667), Dutch painter and draughtsman, one of the first generation of Dutch italianates. He worked in the Court of Charles 1.
Alternative Title:
Cornelis Poelenburgh and Cornelius Polenburg
Description:
Title in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand: Corn. Poelenburgh pictor., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756., Engraved portrait by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting in England entitled "Cornelius Polenburg" and identifies the work as a self portrait by the artist: ipse pinxit., and Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Poelenburgh 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. 103.
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting sheet., A reversed copy of a crayon drawing by George Vertue, which was later engraved by Thomas Chambars for Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England. For Vertue's original drawing, which was done after a portrait by Adriaen Hanneman, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3664.8., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on leaf 50 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Drawing of Cormelius Johnson (1593-1661), English born painter. During the English Civil War, moved to Netherlands in late 1643; believed to have died in Utrecht in 1661
Alternative Title:
Cornelius Janson
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Johnson 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. 4., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
"The Cotswold Games, with Robert Dover on horseback at lower centre, riding to left; illustration to James Caulfield's 'Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward III to the Revolution' (London: 1794); copy from woodcut prefixed to 'Annalia Dubrensia'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., A copy of a print published in Annalia Dubrensia in 1636., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Robert Dover, 1575-1641 -- Cotswold -- Gloucestershire: Dover's Hill -- Games: Olympics, Cotswold -- 17th-century games: cudget playing, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, throwing the sledge, topping the pike, guns discharged from the castle of boards -- 17th-century dances -- Bagpipes -- Hunting -- Coursing., and Robert Dover's name added below image in a later hand.
Inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand on verso (not visible): "Cottage at Strawberry Hill, by J.C. Barrow.", Note in pencil in a later hand: "Bedford's copy of the Description, has (no. 36) aquatint from this as one of the "Views added"; he says in his list there that it was an aquatint by Barrow, engr. Parkyns. (Slight difference in his print: figs. in front + none under tree, but unmistakably this is the drawing for it).", Numbered on verso, in pencil: "No. H"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Jospeh Charles Barrow, English artist, active 1789-1802., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury; half length to left; wearing hair loose and fabric draped over right shoulder; in oval
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a painting by Sir Peter Lely., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 63 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Shrewsbury, Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot, Countess of, 1642-1702,
Two physicians greet each other. The one on the left has a large belly and holds his hands in his pockets. The one on the right is smaller and thinner and holds his hat in his hand. From a piece of paper protruding from his pocket reads: "Pitts[...] Salutarian."
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date conjectured from costume.
Title from text inscribed in graphite pencil above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.