A half-length portrait of Horace Walpole at middle age dressed in a purple jacket and vest with a ruffled shirt. His face is in three-quarter view as he gazes to his proper left. The top of a white feather quill is visible at the lower left. At some point the painting was cut down from an original three-quarter length preserved in a preliminary sketch by Ramsay now in the National Gallery of Scotland. The drawing shows Walpole seated at a table holding a quill pen. Only the top of the table is visible
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and It is uncertain if Walpole commissioned this portrait, but it did apparently belong to the Honorable Anne Seymour Damer, Walpole’s niece and executrix.
A half-length portrait of Horatio Walpole, in three-quarter profile turned to the sitter’s proper left. He sits in a green chair with brass tack trim against a plain background. He wears a plain blue coat with buttons and a white cravat. His curly hair is natural brown
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and A brass plate at the center bottom of the frame identifies the painting as Horatio. Earl of Orford by H. Walton.
A bust-length portrait of Horatio, Lord Walpole, younger brother of Robert Walpole. Horace Walpole called him “Old Horace.” He wears a green button coat with a simply white cravat and a long, powered wig. The sitter is identified in a cartouche at the bottom center of a simple beaded gilt frame
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Vanloo in 2005 Christie's appraisal., and This is a version of a portrait from Walpole’s collection at Strawberry Hill.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., Two columns of verse below image: A fawning flatterer D. J. Thou see'st not, what thou see'st, then doe not say ..., and Watermark.
Portrait of John Lilburne; bust body positioned to the right but looking to front; with short curly hair and moustache; wearing a wide collar with scalloped lace edges, over a doublet; in a double-ruled oval and shields at top left and right
Alternative Title:
Mr. Iohn Lilburn, a pious young gentleman of about 22 or 23 yeares of age ..., Mr. John Lilburn, a pious young gentleman of about 22 or 23 yeares of age ..., and Portrait of John Lilburne
Description:
Attribution to Hollar, title, and publication date in British Museum catalogue., Added title from the first of fourteen lines of text below the image. Caption continues: "... for suspition of printing & divulging ceratin of Dr. Baswicked & other bookes, against Popish innovations, was censured in the Starr-Chamber to be whipt at a carts-tayle from ffleet [sic] to Westminster had therby about 200 lashes with a ship, was then presetnly upon it set one a pillorie ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Fourteen lines of text below the image: Mr. Iohn Lilburn, a pious young gentleman ...
Portrait of the head of John Speed after the frontispiece to his British Isles atlas Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1631 onwards); the plate also appeared in the other editions of his atlases).
Alternative Title:
Aet. M. viri clarissimi Joannis Speed Farndoniae nati in Comitatu Cestriae
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Possibly by a young Christopher Barber?
Ink and pencil copy of an eighteenth-century engraved portrait of John Watson, Church of England clergyman and antiquary. Watson is drawn half-length directed to the right, with his head almost in profile, right hand on hip, left holding a scroll in front of him with his elbow propped on an unseen ledge; wearing dark clerical robes with waistband, and white bell-bottomed wig. A numbered .5 cm grid is penciled over the ink drawing
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A copy of a 1780 engraved portrait by James Basire after Daniel Stringer., and For further information, consult library staff.
Drawing, full-length, of King Richard III and his Queen, in robes and crowned
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Possibly after a drawing from painted glass by George Vertue, which formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 55 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.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485,, Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)