Full length caricature of Edmund Burke, facing left making a speech. In his upraised right hand is a paper alluding to his Bill for Economical Reform
Alternative Title:
For rhetoric he could not ope his mouth but out there flew a trope
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 1 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 6th April 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Full length caricature of Edmund Burke, facing left making a speech. In his upraised right hand is a paper alluding to his Bill for Economical Reform
Alternative Title:
For rhetoric he could not ope his mouth but out there flew a trope
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 2 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: Mr. Burke.
Publisher:
Published 6th April 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Title supplied by cataloger., Place of publication based on sitter's known place of activity., and Date of publication based on year sitter would be of age for portrait.
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.
Drawing of six figures identified in pencil by former owner
Description:
Titles supplied by cataloger., Formerly attributed to George Vertue. See Christie's sale catalog., Originally drawn by John Rous. Horace Walpole had the drawings traced and then engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of the Right Honorable Edward Harlay Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, the great collecter, drawn from life by George Vertue, 1725., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 1, page 9. 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., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 9 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page 17. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Edward VI, bust-length to the left; wearing a collared shirt, a fur-trimmed coat, and a feathered hat
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Placement instruction "p. 16" written in pencil in upper left corner., and Inlaid opposite page 17 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. [Twickenham, England] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.