Portrait of Henry IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, holding his sceptre against his left shoulder and a rose in his right hand, with a small beard and moustache and a turban with a jewelled brooch, dressed in an embroidered doublet lined with ermine with a chain of office about his neck; in a rectangular frame with ornaments including at the top with two lions with a paw each on a rose with a crown overhead. Below another crest with weapons with banners labeled "Lancaster".
Alternative Title:
Henry the Fourth and Henry IV
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "Taken from a Picture at Hampton Court, Herefordshire.", and Plate to folio ed. of Rapin and Tindal's History of England, 1732-1733.
"Portrait of Henry, Lord Darnley, King of Scotland, set into a frame with emblems relating to him; illustration to Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1736"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henry Lord Darnley King of Scotland
Description:
Title from text in image., Text in image below sitter: Ao. dat. MDLXIII, aeta XVII., Plate from: Vertue, G. Heads of the kings of England. London : Knapton, 1736., and Original portrait currently attributed to Hans Ewouts. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1979,U.1241.
"Portrait of John of Gaunt in a Gothic arch set into a composition alluding to events of his reign; plate from Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1735."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John of Gaunt, King of Castile & Leon, Duke of Lancaster
Description:
Title from text in image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Text below image: "Painted on Glass in an Antient Window in [the] Library of All Souls Coll. Oxon."
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
"Portrait of John Gower; bust, in profile to the right; wearing chaplet of roses around his head; in a rectangle frame, set within architectural details; a tablet below, with his three principal works in front, and a further book open to a page with an illustration of his monument in Southwark Cathedral; the portrait taken from his effigy on this monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Text below image: "Honoratiss Dno Ioanni Levison Gower Domino Gower; hanc effigiem humillime D.D. / G. Vertue." per image in British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,1.338., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of text below design., and In white paper frame with green gouche, yellow wash, and black ink frame: 420 x 360 mm.
Title from text in image., Text in image above sitter's name: nat. 1632; denat aetat 68., Text in image below sitter's name: "... whose tunefull [sic] muse affords the sweetest numbers and the fittest words. Addison.", Caption below image: Praenobili dno. dno. Edoardo comiti Oxoniae, &c. ad archetypu[m] museo Harleyano asservatum qua[m] par est observantia[m], D. D. Vertue sculptr., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Mounted on sheet: 326 x 257 mm.
"Portrait of John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, set into a composition with his arms; plate from Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1735"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity., and Text below image: "From a curious Limning in a (MS) rich Prayerbook presented by himself to K. Hen. 6 now in the Possession of the Earl of Oxford."
"Portrait of Charles I, set into a classical frame in robes of state and with symbols in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King Charles I
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "From an excellent Original in the Royal Palace at Hampton Court.", and Plate from: Rapin de Thoyras, M. The history of England. London, Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1732-47.
"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated to left in a high-back chair, looking to front; wearing a wig and ecclesiastical robes and bands; his right hand on his knee, pointing forwards with his index finger; his left arm resting on a table, with hand on a closed book; pillar in background on left; in reverse after Seeman; proof before letters."-- from similar print in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"A double portrait showing Mary Tudor and her second husband Charles Brandon, half-length; with Mary on the left, holding an emblem consisting of a caduceus emerging from a flower in her right hand, the other held by Charles Brandon, who wears a fur-trimmed overgown and the collar of the Garter, with a curtain behind to left, and with crown, Hand of Justice, sceptre, crests, lance and gloves on the plinth of the frame surrounding them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Her Royal Grace the Queen of France, sister of K. Henry VIII, married to Lewis XII [the] French king, afterwards to the Duke of Suffolk
Description:
Title engraved within banner below image on inner plate; alternative title engraved within lion's hide on outer plate., Determined to be the republished state from 1776 based on the type of paper., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Vertue, G. A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. [London] : Republished by the Society [of Antiquaries of London], 1776., Image printed from two plates; the larger architectural frame surrounding the main image is engraved on a separate, outer plate., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark of outer plate with loss of plate number from top edge and dedication from bottom edge. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Y,5.143., At bottom of outer plate is engraved a dedication from the engraver to John Carteret, Earl of Granville, contemporary owner of the original., "Pl. III"--Above image in upper right., Engraved after a painting that was later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 114 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:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)