Drawing of Jan Wyck (or John Wijck) (1566-1640), Flemish born painter, son of Thomas Wyck (ca. 1616-1677). Settled in England where he excelled at depicting battle scenes
Alternative Title:
Jan Wyck battle painter
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., Signed in ink, lower right: G. V., Inscription in pencil, lower left: [illegible]., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Wyck in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 3, opp. p. 133., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: Things are now at such a pass, that every fool must have his ass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762 -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl., and Mounted to 32 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Half-length, oval portrait of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Lord High Admiral. Created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1739
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Portrait is unsigned., and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Subject (Name):
Russell, John, Earl of Bedford, approximately 1485-1555,
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1802 and 1853?]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 2 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, drawn in an oval, of Johannes Meeke. He is wearing 17th century dress with a cap. He is holding a book in his right hand
Description:
Title from artist's inscription below image., George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853., Inscription in pencil on verso: By [?G.P. Harding]., and Inscription in pencil on verso: Benefactor of Magdalen College.
Titles from text below images., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as a younger man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his wavy hair; dressed in a scarlet fur-trimmed jacket over a gold shirt; holding a red rose in his right hand
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as an older man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his gray hair; dressed in a gold fur-trimmed jacket, embroidered, over a scarlet shirt
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Volume 2, opposite page 8. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in image; remainder of title from note in ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose annotation is present on sheet., and Bound in opposite page 8 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Volume 1, page 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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.