From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1717–1719
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 52, folder 25
Image Count:
84
Description:
Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his estate to Hanbury, who entailed it for his son Charles, who then took the name Hanbury-Williams. For further information, see The Hanburys of Monmouthshire by Richard Hanbury Tenison (1995), chapter 4. and A volume of letters bound in gold-tooled and stamped green vellum, with a printed CH-W number label (and evidence of a Phillipps label, now missing) on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 46; the Phillipps number is 10893.
Page 198. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
William Cole of Milton near Cambridge, A.M.
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on verso, in William Cole's hand., Mounted below on the same page is a pencil drawing by Lady Diana Beauclerk: [Portrait of a young lady]., and Mounted on page 198 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).
Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
Description:
Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
A map of iron forges and mines near Arboga, still in Sweden
Alternative Title:
Fodina ferrea Danmorensis
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and imprint from Paulson., Engraved title etched in image, upper left., "T. II."--Middle left, between two images., "XXXV."--Middle right, between two images., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and On page 18 in volume 1.
A map of iron forges and mines near Arboga, still in Sweden
Alternative Title:
Fodina ferrea Danmorensis
Description:
Title etched in image, upper left., Publisher, state, and date from Paulson., "Tom. 2, No. XI."--Upper right corner in image., and One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa.
A patriarchal cap or tiara in the shape of an imperial crown, based on the crown 'of Methodios, an ancient Patriarch of Constantinople, brought thence to Rome". See v. 1, p. 72.
Alternative Title:
Tiara patriarchalis graeca
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., One of fifteen plates from: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "Ex. collectione Johannis Talman."--Upper right corner., Numberd "9" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 13 in volume 1.
A patriarchal cap or tiara in the shape of an imperial crown, based on the crown 'of Methodios, an ancient Patriarch of Constantinople, brought thence to Rome". See v. 1, p. 72.
Alternative Title:
Tiara patriarchalis graeca
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Flourishes in the caption have been removed in this state., One of fifteen plates from: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "Ex. collect. Jo. Talman."--Lower left corner., Numberd "9" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and "Tom. 1, No. IX."--Added in ms., upper left corner after the number '9'.
Drawing of a bust of Anne-Marie (Dughet) Poussin, wife of Nocolo Poussin, executed in terra-cotta by Fiammingo. This sculpture, which came from Pierre-Jean Mariette's collection, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 215 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.
Wash drawing of the back of the 16th-century oak chair kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The Latin text carved on one of the arms of the chair is visible
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 119 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.