"Portrait of George Henry Fitzroy, 4th Duke of Grafton, three-quarter length, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, wearing fur-trimmed robe, his right hand resting on a table."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
His Grace George Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton : born 1760, died 1844
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from later state., Early (proof?) state, before title and imprint added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,0410.821., Publisher and date of publication inferred from imprint on later state: London, Published Septr. 2, 1844, by Henry Graves & Co., printsellers to the Queen, & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6, Pall Mall., Bound in opposite page 92 (leaf numbered '138' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Manuscript title "Fourth Duke of Grafton" in ink below image.
Publisher:
Henry Graves & Co.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, George Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1760-1844,
"Stipple of George IV as Prince Regent. Whole length with short hair, plain tie, sash, belt, mantle, and Garter collar with George. Standing with right hand on hip and left leaning against a plinth. With a crown to the right and columns and landscape in the background. Without inscription, with Prince of Wales feathers and publisher's address below ..."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George the Fourth as Prince Regent
Description:
Title supplied from the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 605241., "Proof"--Lower right corner of plate., and Bound in opposite page 648 (leaf numbered '96' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pub. & sold Jany. 10, 1812, by Edwd. Orme, printseller to His Majesty, Bond Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Order of the Garter, and Order of the Garter.
Title from published state., Printmaker and artist from statement of responsibility on published state: Engraved by Dean, from a miniature in enamel painted by Zincke & preserved in the collection at Strawberry Hill., Proof before letters of a plate from: Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ... London: R. Bentley, 1833., and Publisher and date from imprint on published state: London, Published 1833 by Richard Bentley, 8 New Burlington Street.
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
Proof with Gibbs's head before shading and lettering; a half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, state and date from later states and Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.6 x 18.5 cm.
"Portrait of the dramatist Sir William Killigrew; three-quarter length, standing, to the right, right hand under robe; with shoulder length hair, moustache, and short pointed beard; a column and tree in background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Sir William Killigrew
Description:
Title from later state., Proof before title; for a later state with title and additional lettering below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1908,0810.6., Publication information from imprint on later state: Published Decr. 1, 1796, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall., Proof state of a plate for: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Engraved after a copy of the painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Little Library of the Cottage at Strawberry Hill, which Horace Walpole believed to be a portrait of John Milton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Mounted on page 201 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., and Annotated in pencil with the title "John Milton" below image and with the name "Mr. Bawtree" in lower right corner.
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., With Horace Walpole's manuscript annotations in brown ink in lower margin identifying the sitters and their relationships and a note: "The original picture at Strawberry Hill.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 50.5 x 58.4 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and A note in pencil on verso, possibly in Frank T. Sabin's hand, mentions "Fritz Reiss Sale, 2900 guineas at Christies", in reference to the sale of another impression of the print in 1923. A second note below, in the same hand but likely written at a different time, asserts that this is the "finest impression of the 1st state known, specially selected by Horace Walpole, for whom the original picture was painted, & inserted by him in his own enlarged & illustrated catalogue of the pictures at Strawberry Hill".
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby; half length looking to left; wearing lace-trimmed dress with ribbon tied to a rosette around waist; after miniature by I. Oliver."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title from lettered state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no: 1920,1211.509., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; A. Birrell sculp., Proof before letters., Publication information from imprint on lettered state: Pub. by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, Jan. 1, 1802., Lettering on later state indicates that the print was made "from a miniature by Isacc Oliver at Strawberry-Hill.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 50 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., and Contemporary annotation in pencil below image: Venitia [sic] La. Digby.
Publisher:
S. Harding
Subject (Name):
Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)