"Half-length portrait aged 74, sitting in armchair, directed to the right, looking towards the viewer, in wig and private dress, curtain behind on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and In paper frame: 365 x 274 mm.
Publisher:
Published May 11, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
"Bust portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry, in profile to left, hair pulled back and loosely fastened, falling down back and over right shoulder, wearing loose, low-necked gown, button at left shoulder; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Barry
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Engraved after the picture kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 170 of 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.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Bust portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry, in profile to left, hair pulled back and loosely fastened, falling down back and over right shoulder, wearing loose, low-necked gown, button at left shoulder; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Barry
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Engraved after the picture kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 220 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; oval sheet 13.1 x 10.4 cm., Imperfect; oval portrait only is present, with the rest of the sheet (including all text) trimmed away., Manuscript title in ink on mounting page below image: Mrs. Barry., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image., Mounted on page 99 of 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., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 22.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
George Vertue
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Determined to be the republished state from 1776 based on the type of paper on which the plate is printed., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate was published., Plate from: Vertue, G. A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. [London] : Republished by the Society [of Antiquaries of London], 1776., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., "Pl. IV"--Above image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1853,0112.1932., and Mounted on page 100 of 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.
Publisher:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Liotard
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Design consists of two portraits, each with the sitter's name etched below; the larger portrait of "Frederick Zincke" is centered in a rectangle, while the smaller portrait of "Liotard" is in an oval in the lower right corner of the rectangle., "Vol. 4, p. 91"--Upper right corner., Portrait of Liotard engraved after a self-portrait in enamel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 136 of 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., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; sheet 6.5 x 4.7 cm., and Imperfect; only the smaller portrait of Liotard is present, with the rest of the sheet trimmed away.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Zincke, Christian Frederick, 1685-1767,, Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)