Letterpress broadside with two columns of text, from Craftsman, 12 Dec., and Daily courant, 21 Dec. 1730, illustrated above with two engraved oval portraits, from left, of Lord Bolingbroke and Sir Robert Walpole (plate mark of each 11.7 x 10.7 cm.)., The imprint is probably fictitious: Figg and Sutton were pugilists. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed resulting in loss of imprint., 1sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (ports.) ; 37 x 24 cm., Subjects identified below image in unknown hand., and Numbered on verso in unidentified: N11415.
Publisher:
Printed for Messieurs Figg and Sutton
Subject (Name):
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
A vitreous paste relief of Sir Robert Walpole, with black wooden frame backed in marble paper and with brass hanger. and James Tassie (1735-1799) modeller and portrait medallionist, after training at the Glasgow Academy of Art moved to Dublin and then London where, in early 1785 fuelling the neo-classic rage, he made a series of original portrait reliefs of contemporary figures using a glass paste, a technique which now bears his name, Tassie.
Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on verso; this contemporary annotation faces upward when sheet is folded in half as intended., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted below another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted above drawing., Attribution to Sir Edward Walpole from Horace Walpole's note on preceding leaf in the same volume: Verses and drawings by my brother Sr. E. Walpole ..., Date of production based on artist's death date., Mounted above another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole., and Mounted on page 155 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, wearing sash and star of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval with laurel branches beyond; a crown and collar of the Order of the Garter below; published state; after Arthur Pond.''--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Plate to: Birch's Illustrious heads., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to: 478 x 319 mm.
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1788]
Call Number:
Portraits W218A no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole-length standing three-quarter to right, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on a table to left, holding a document in left hand, wearing ornate embroidered robe over his suit, a sash from left shoulder, lace cravat and long wig, with a classical statue in the garden beyond the balustrade to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., and Frontispiece to the second volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia - lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
"Portrait, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, his right hand tucked into coat, his left hand on hip, wearing the badge of the Garter, a sash diagonally from his left shoulder, cravat, and long brown wig; arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole &c. &c. &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information based on that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate no. 28 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Plate numbered '28' in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to left, wearing long, curly wig, robes and chain of the Order of the Garter, and lace cravat; in ornamental oval frame on table, on which are papers, purse of the Great Seal, portrait bust, plumed hat, cornucopia with money, and other emblems; coat of arms at lower right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744
Description:
Title from text in image., Year "1735" at end of artist's signature later changed to "1744" on plate. For the later state with altered date, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Publication information from that of the volume to which this plate is the frontispiece., Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 130 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., and Year "1735" at end of artist's signature has been altered to "1744" in brown ink, in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to left, wearing long, curly wig, robes and chain of the Order of the Garter, and lace cravat; in ornamental oval frame on table, on which are papers, purse of the Great Seal, portrait bust, plumed hat, cornucopia with money, and other emblems; coat of arms at lower right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744
Description:
Title from text in image., Year "1735" at end of artist's signature later changed to "1744" on plate. For the later state with altered date, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Publication information from that of the volume to which this plate is the frontispiece., Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 166 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 15.9 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Interior of the House of Commons; the Speaker Arthur Onslow seated to the left of centre, speaking with Sir Robert Walpole on his left; to his right seated with pen and ink and open book is Edward Stables, the Clerk of the House of Commons; other figures from the administration portrayed behind central figures, all wearing wigs and hats, including Sydney Godolphin, Sir Joseph Jekyl, Colonel Onslow, Sir James Thornhill, and Mr Aiskew; just visible to the left of the Speaker are Sir Thomas Cotton and Sir William Wyndham
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Text following title: First published in 1803, by Mr. E. Harding & copied by his permission.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, 1645-1712,, Jekyll, Joseph, Sir, 1663-1738,, Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768,, Onslow, George Onslow, Earl of, 1731-1814,, Stables, Edward,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Wyndham, William, 1687-1740,, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,