A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
Alternative Title:
Drawings by Vertue
Description:
In English, some Latin., Title from Hazen., Leaves 14, 15 lacking images?, Binding: red morocco, now rebacked., Note on first blank in Horace Walpole's hand: "This was Mr. Vertue's, & most of the Drawings are by Him." Followed by a note in another hand: "Knowley Inner Library B.e. S.4. No. 21.", On front pastedown: Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1)., Also on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate of Lord Derby on front pastedown, with his shelf mark "3.B"., and Red morocco, now rebacked. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: Essays on physiognomy ... / by John Caspar Lavater. London, J. Murrray, 1789-1798, v. i, page 154., Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Walking staves., and Profile portrait of a man's head by Thornthwaite on verso.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Mounted on page 13 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint etched over but visible., Plate numbered "9" in upper left corner., and Ms. identification of the subject in contemporary hand in upper left corner on verso.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., 1 print : etching and drypoint with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 8 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Duke of Grafton.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Printing date of ca. 1806 conjectured from another print (Earl Nugent) in series on similar paper and with dated watermark. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 782.05.14.01.3 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d Jany. 1783
Call Number:
783.01.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the left holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm. Identified in pencil beneath the plate as "D. Portland."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, and Watermark: T W 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.