"A bust of Henry VII, with long curling hair and a fillet about his brow, his head leaning to the left, the sculpture upon a plinth lettered "Henricus VII Torreggiani Opus Ao MDIX", masonry behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on plinth in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Engraved after a sculpture formerly attributed to Torrigiano., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Carter, J. Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting, now remaining in this kingdom ... London : Published as the act directs by John Carter, Wood St. Westminster, 1780-87 [1780-94]., Text below image, centered: In the possession of the Honorable Horace Walpole, now Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, Middx. (Drawn to half the size of the original)., "The drawing in [the] possn. of R. Bull Esqr."--Below lower left corner of image., and Tipped in at page 95 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.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Carter, Hamilton Street Hyde Park Corner
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
Description:
Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
Description:
Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
"Iohan. Senex scu, Imprint derived from other maps in the same atlas., London meridian., Ms. no. on verso: 34. Sheet measures 53 x 68 cm. Cross Collection no. 96., Relief shown pictorially., and Shows boundaries, forests, rivers, roads and settlements, with notes.
Publisher:
John Senex,
Subject (Geographic):
Mediterranean Region--Historical geography--Early works to 1800--Maps
Subject (Name):
Senex, John, d. 1740. New general atlas
Subject (Topic):
Ecclesiastical geography--Africa, North--Maps--Early works to 1800