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 a portrait of the Right Honourable Earl of Winchelsea, drawn from the 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.
An invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and trustee of the Britisih Museum
Alternative Title:
Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title from letterpress text set in the image., Possibly Charles Antoine Coypel (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; 1694-1752)? J. Loveday amateur printmaker?, First line of text: Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward, from his apartments in Gresham College to the burying-ground at Bunhill ... the 24th of October, 1758 ..., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: With extensive contemporary annotations including a transcription of the Latin text on Ward's monument on the verso. Newspaper clipping of his obituary from October 18 mounted above the image and numbered "323". The sheet has been trimmed with a loss of the name of the addressee and other text[?] on verso and recto. With ms. note laid in, possibly a transcription for a caption with biographical details of John Ward and signed: "[...]bster pinxit ; Jacobus Macardell scalpsit."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Death, Monuments & memorials, and Memorials
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., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, by George Vertue., 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.
Portrait of John Mann, Secretary of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office from 1730 until his death in 1776; half-length, looking slightly right; wearing a long wig and an unbuttoned jacket
Description:
Title from annotation on mount., Date of publication based on sitter's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on wove paper to 18 x 13 cm., and Annotated by Thomas Kirgate in ink on mount: Mr. Mann, of the Hand in Hand Fire Office.
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below image: Scudery.
Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Text below image: Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé depictam et Authoris Icona hoc modo exhibentem., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso: Trivet.
"Portrait of Richard Smalbroke, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in a fur-lined cloak over his waistcoat and a matching fur-lined hat on his head, a jewelled brooch at his neck."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist from description of variant state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,0410.2486., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink at bottom of sheet: Dr. Richard Smalbroke L.L.D., Chancellor of Litchfield 1756.
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., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was done from life, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Dr. John Clarke, Rector of St. James Picadilly, drawn after life, by George Vertue., A second, later annotation in Horace Walpole's hand is also present on verso, offering a correction to the earlier note: I cannot help thinking that his name was Samuel & not John., 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.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1738]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3636 no. 5+ (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Self-portrait of Jonathan Richardson the elder, head and shoulders, wearing wig and neckcloth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text below image: Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love, and show by virtue virtue you approve. R. 1738., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in pencil in a 20th century hand: Taken from an extra-illustrated Boswell's "Johnson"., Window mounted on wove paper to 29 x 23 cm., and Annotation in ink in Horace Walpole's hand, on a 2.5 x 7.6 cm piece of laid paper, window mounted below portrait: John Richardson, painter, by himself.