Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, shown full length in profile to left holding stick in right hand, with hat under left arm and left hand in pocket
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Later state, with number removed from upper left corner of plate; Cf. No. 6058 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Conjectured printing date of 1806 for this impression based on another print in the series on similar paper and with dated watermark; Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 782.05.14.01.3 Impression 1.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a jug-like bottle with a handle that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. This type of bottle was sold by apothecaries, and this particular example was from the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 31 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.
Drawing of a jug-like bottle with a handle that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. This type of bottle was sold by apothecaries, and this particular example was from the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 45 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.
Volume 1, page 57. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the eastern front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date supplied by cataloger., Note in ink in upper left corner, partially trimmed from sheet: The east [front?]., Mounted on page 57 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., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Volume 1, page 57. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the eastern front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date supplied by cataloger., Note in ink in upper left corner, partially trimmed from sheet: The east [front?]., Mounted on page 57 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., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Watercolor of the view from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Another larger drawing of this view: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 769.00.0077dr++., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill" that appeared in the 1784 edition of: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Title assigned by curator., Signed lower right: "E.E." [i.e. Edward Edwards]., Image on contemporary mount with wash lines and gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title devised by curator, based on pencil annotation "Eaton-Socon" at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 78a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Eaton Socon (St. Neots, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
Two men in a large room, one seated, the other standing are seen gesturing towards a framed picture representing a naval battle, and showing the diplomatic papers thrown into the water by Henry Laurens. When retrieved by the British, these papers had revealed unauthorized Dutch negotiations with the American Congress, resulting in a British declaration of war on Holland on 20 December 1780
Alternative Title:
True interpretation of an English print
Description:
Titles and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Netherlands., Netherlands, Great Britain., United States., and England