"Portrait of Henry VIII, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing plumed hat and chains; illustration to Gilbert Burnet's 'Historie of the Reformation' (London, Richard Chiswell, 1681)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effigies Henry VIII and Effigies Henry the Eighth
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.2397., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate to Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, published by R. Chiswell 1681., "Pag. 1"--Lower left corner, preceding imprint statment., and Mounted in white paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Ric: Chiswell, at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Visscher, Lambert, approximately 1631-approximately 1691, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1664?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Johannes Froben, bust to left, wearing fur-trimmed coat; in a circle on a pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink within pedestal below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., State lacking title and without year "1664" following printmaker's signature. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,7.177., Place and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 101 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.