A sheet full of dozens of images of men and women's caricatured heads, after Hogarth's Characters ; Caricaturas?
Description:
Title from quotation etched below image., Frederick Birnie was active in London from 1787-1792. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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.
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.
Drawing of Daniel Mytens (ca. 1590-1674), painter born in Delft in the northern Netherlands. He moved to London in the mid-1610s where his patrons included many members of the royal court and later King James I and Charles I. He returned to The Hague in 1630 where he worked as an art dealer
Alternative Title:
Daniel Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis
Description:
Title from item., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Mytens 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. 7. Artist indentified as: Ant. van Dyck pinxt., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Latin verses written by Horace Walpole probably while a student at Eton
Description:
In Latin., With a plain paper wrapper (19th century paper) embossed with the seal of one of the Earls of Derby, probably the 14th or 15th Earl, both Knights of the Garter., and For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, three-quarter length, standing, turned to the right, but looking towards the viewer, wearing low-cut silk dress with ample sleeves, with right hand resting on monumental stone vase, and left hand pointing up; in ornate frame; after Anthony van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of ornate frame and all text below image. Title, statements of responsibility, and imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 46 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.
"Portrait of Henry VIII, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing plumed hat and chains; illustration to Gilbert Burnet's 'Historie of the Reformation' (London, Richard Chiswell, 1681)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effigies Henry VIII and Effigies Henry the Eighth
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.2397., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate to Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, published by R. Chiswell 1681., "Pag. 1"--Lower left corner, preceding imprint statment., and Mounted in white paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Ric: Chiswell, at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 10.2 x 16.5 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotation by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner of sheet: H.W.B. f.