- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Edward Courtney, first Earl of Devonshire, standing in front of a ruined tower
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 128., The engraving which is based on this drawing states: "from an original by Sr. Antonio More at the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn." Cf. Anecdotes of painting., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Devonshire, Edward Courtenay, Earl of, 1526-1556,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Edward Courtney, Earl of Devonshire] [art original].
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- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
- Alternative Title:
- Francis Cleyn
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 127., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and German
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Francesco Cleyn] [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.20
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566-1640), Flemish born painter who worked briefly in England. Best known for his marine painting and designs for tapestries illlustating the great English naval victories of 1588 over the Spanish Armada
- Alternative Title:
- Hendrick Cornelius Vroom
- Description:
- Title and artist from engraving based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England. Engraving by T. Chambars identifies artist as: Is. Oliver pinxt., Slight corrects in brown ink., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Vroom in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 1, opp. p. 144., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz, 1566-1640,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Flemish
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Henry Cornelius Vroom] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.11+ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Drawing of John Baptist Monnoyer (bap.1636-1699), French-born painter educated in Antwerp, known for his floral interior decorations, fashionable in France in the second half of the 17th century. He moved to England in 1690 where he continued to specialize in decorating royal and grand houses
- Alternative Title:
- Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
- Description:
- Title based on title of engraving in Anecdotes of painting in England., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Monoyer in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, p. 116. Vertue's drawing is based on a chalk drawing by Sir Godfrey Kneller, now in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste, ca. 1636-1699,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [John Baptist Monoyer] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- drawn June anno 1721.
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
- Description:
- Title devised be cataloger., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life., Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit., Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647, and Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, Sculptors, and Architects
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1756]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.36
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Theobalds framed by two pencilled lines and mounted on a secondary sheet
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Ms. note left unmounted., Drawing attributed to Vertue in pencil on the mount above. Identification from early sales catalog which has been questioned by former owner. Suggested alternative identification: Oatlands Palace (Surrey) from a painting by Van Somer in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Theobalds] [art original].