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1. Hungerfords Chapple [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hungerfords Chapel
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., An inscription from the depicted painting is reproduced in ink below title., and Mounted on page 49 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Salisbury Cathedral.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hungerfords Chapple [art original].
2. In memory of Anne Stonhouse a sincere Christian [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1746]
- Call Number:
- 53 H446 746
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 86. Meditations among the tombs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text inscribed on the depicted monument., Unsigned; artist unidentified. This is possibly the original drawing for an engraved plate issued in later editions of Hervey's Meditations among the tombs., Date of production based on publication date of the book in which the drawing is found., Beneath title is inscribed four lines of verse, followed by a description of the circumstances of Anne Stonhouse's death: She died a few days after [the] birth of her 4th child, Dec. 1st 1747 in [the] 25th year of her age., and Bound in opposite page 86 in James Hervey's copy of the first edition of his Meditations among the tombs.
- Subject (Name):
- Stonhouse, Anne, 1722-1747.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > In memory of Anne Stonhouse a sincere Christian [art original].
3. The monument for Sr. Robt. de Hungerford [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 41. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Monument for Sir Robert de Hungerford
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Inscription below title, in a different hand: This monumental inscription is cutt in brass, and sett in black marble, fixt into the south wall of a small chapple joyning to the church of Hungerford. Comm. Berks., Inscription at bottom of sheet: There formerly lay under it, the figure of a man in armour cross legg'd, but that is remov'd into another part of the church and is much defaced., and Mounted on page 41 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Hungerford, Robert Hungerford, Baron, approximately 1429-1464. and Salisbury Cathedral.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The monument for Sr. Robt. de Hungerford [art original].
4. [Design for the tomb of Thomas de Braunstone] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 43. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Decorative border contains an inscription in French., and Mounted on page 43 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Braunstone, Thomas de, Sir, -1401. and St. Peter and St. Paul (Church : Wisbech, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for the tomb of Thomas de Braunstone] [art original].
5. [Monument to John Gay] [art original]
- Creator:
- Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1738?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
- Description:
- Titled devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738., and Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732, and Westminster Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Monument to John Gay] [art original]
6. [Sketch of the painting in Hungerford Chapel, Salisbury] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., With a description, written in ink, above and to the right of drawing: Painted on the wall in Hungerfords Chapple, Salisbury. This is painted on the wall within Hungerfords Chapple adjoyning to Salisbury Cathedral ..., Inscriptions from the painting are reproduced in ink below image, under the headings "over the gallant young mans head" and "writt over the figure of the sceleton"., and Mounted on page 49 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Salisbury Cathedral.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketch of the painting in Hungerford Chapel, Salisbury] [art original].