Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
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Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
"Print, half-length portrait of Francis Beaumont, dramatist, engraving by George Vertue after an unknown artist."--Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset
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Title and subtitle from text in image., Caption below image: "Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset &c. Nobilissimo Ordinis Periscelides Equiti. Hanc tabulum ad archetypum in ipsius adibus expressam. Humil. D.D.D. G. Vertue.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
"Portrait of John Gower; bust, in profile to the right; wearing chaplet of roses around his head; in a rectangle frame, set within architectural details; a tablet below, with his three principal works in front, and a further book open to a page with an illustration of his monument in Southwark Cathedral; the portrait taken from his effigy on this monument."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Text below image: "Honoratiss Dno Ioanni Levison Gower Domino Gower; hanc effigiem humillime D.D. / G. Vertue." per image in British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,1.338., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of text below design., and In white paper frame with green gouche, yellow wash, and black ink frame: 420 x 360 mm.
"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated slightly to left on a high-back chair, with head turned to look towards right; wearing a cap, long open coat over buttoned waistcoat, shirt with lace ruffles at the wrists, and cravat; his right arm resting on a table, holding a quill pen in his hand; his left hand inside breast of coat; after Richardson; touched impression."--British Museum online catalogue
"Engraving of Oliver Cromwell. Bust length with long hair, plain collar, and armour. Within an oval border with coat of arms on a pedestal below. With English inscription below."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Initial letters "S" and "C" in artist's signature form a monogram., Frontispiece to an unidentified edition of: Kimber, I. The life of Oliver Cromwell ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge. Complete title from impression in the Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 602205., and Mounted on page 147 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.
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and In paper frame: 417 x 290 mm.
"Portrait of Sarah Duchess of Somerset, whole length; seated to right in front of a curtain on an elevated pedestal, looking to front; wearing pearl earrings, and fur-trimmed cape over low-cut dress with lace collar and jewels; pointing downwards with the index finger of her right hand; her left hand resting on a crown on a table, next to a closed book; pillar on right; after Quinckhard."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Text in image: "M.S.P. Sara Illustrissima Nuper Ducissa Somersetensis ... MDCXCII.", and After Jan Maurits Quinckhard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Sarah Alston Seymour, Duchess of, 1631-169,
Portrait of Elizabeth I, as Princess (incorrectly identified as 'Lady Jane Grey'); half-length, to front, wearing a cap, small ruff, a double collar of pearls with two long strands, and an ermine-trimmed mantle, in an oval frame, forming part of a composition designed as a sepulchral monument, with an obelisk, a celestial crown and two inscribed labels suspended from garlands, a chair of state, to right, a mourning female supporting a shield of Lady Jane Grey's arms, and to left and right, fluted pilasters and urns topped by burning hearts.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,9.135., Text in lower left corner of image: This from an original in the possession of his Grace., Dedication below image: Inscrib'd to his most noble Grace, Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset by his Grace's most humble and most obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1748., and Numbered in upper right corner "Pl. V."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,