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., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, 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.
Page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence. Poems - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statements of responsibility written in pencil below image; the artist Mundare is unidentified., Copy of a portrait by Romney, which was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1778 and kept in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill. See: Kidson, A. George Romney: a complete catalogue of his paintings. New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015., Mounted below is a separate sheet (10.0 x 14.7 cm) containing eight lines of verse, in Thomas Kirgate's hand, beneath the heading: Written on the back of Lady Craven's picture, by Lord Orford., and Mounted on page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Subject (Name):
Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted above on the same page is a pen and ink drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 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).
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00996
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from published print: Published Octr., 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Pencil inscription verso., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local subject terms: Country doctors., Temporary local subject terms: Dental examination., Temporary local subject terms: Corns., and Temporary local subject terms: Office interiors.
Subject (Topic):
Podiatry, Dentistry, Dental offices, Pain, and Surgery
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist., "Vaccination" is written on paper on side table., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A set of original designs by Robert Cruikshank, for an unrecorded series of conundrum cards. The eight designs are all inscribed with a number (the highest being 170) and the name of the character, but all lack the 1- or 2-line conundrum
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Each card annotated in pencil or ink, signed ‘RCk.', and Date from dealer's description.
Volume 1, page 126. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left portion of image., and Bound in as page 126 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900, artist
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
Print10249
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by curator., This drawing originally hung in the Fulton Room on the Cushing Rotunda balcony in the School of Medicine., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Universities.