Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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Hungerfords Chapel
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Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., An inscription from the depicted painting is reproduced in ink below title., and Mounted on page 49 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.
Volume 1, page 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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.
Volume 1, page 39. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Lake Bishop Bath Wells
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Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 39 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.
Volume 1, page 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
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Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 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.
Volume 1, page 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon.", Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 37 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.
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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Title from contemporary manuscript annotation in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date based on that of the printed work for which this design was made., Original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to v.1 of: Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales sex regum Angliae. Oxonii [Oxford] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719-1722., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 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.
Portrait of Orazio Gentileschi (1563-639), Pisan-born painter, whose style was influenced by Caravaggio after they met in 1600. Gentileschi moved to London in 1626 at the invitation of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, the favourite and chief minister of Charles I from whom he received a pension
Alternative Title:
Orazio Gentileschi
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 113., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Paul van Somer (1576-1621), Flemish painter and printmaker
Alternative Title:
Paul van Somer
Description:
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756., Title from item., and Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p.92.
Drawing of the effigies of Rene of Anjou and his wife on their tombs
Alternative Title:
René of Anjou and his wife
Description:
Artist unknown., With a collection of tracings by an unidentified artist from drawings 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 Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "René of Anjou & his wife, parents of Margaret, Queen of Henry 6th.
Subject (Name):
René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, 1409-1480. and Isabelle, Queen, consort of René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, -1453.
Volume 1, page 29. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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Alternative Title:
Samuel Daniel
Description:
Title from inscription in pencil above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Below title is written "pub. 1609"; in lower right corner is written "gravd. by TCockson[?] sculp.", Likely drawn after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson on the title page to: Daniel, S. The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke. Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 29 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.