Title supplied by curator., Place of pubication supplied by curator., Date derived from building's date of completion., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Four pastoral figures. A man holding a tool stands next to a woman carrying a sieve. She is looking at a woman and a child sitting down
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Signed in lower right: DB., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title and date from pencil note verso: Dore (1860) Salle des Internes a l'Hôpital de la Charité. This is probably Henry Linton., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior.
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 supplied by cataloger., 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.
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.
Title devised by cataloger., Satire after Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to design with loss in upper and lower right corners., and Publication date conjectured from costume.
A silver medal from Holland, with satirical images of Oliver Cromwell. On the obverse is a bust of Oliver Cromwell, crowned with laurel leaves and in armor; on the reverse, Cromwell kneels in the lap of Britannia, with his breeches down, as the French and Spanish ambassadors in the background argue over who shall kiss first. Formerly housed in the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 99 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A scene along the Thames River in Twickenham with modest functional structures on the wooded banks bustling with activity. Barges with sails float on the water. A man leads two horses from the shore while other horses ford the river. A man with a companion pushes a wheelbarrow while a family strolls in the middle distance. On the far shore smoke billows from a chimney stack among a cluster of buildings
Alternative Title:
Wooded river landscape and Thames at Twickenham
Description:
Title, artist and date on brass plate on frame: Scene at Twickenham by J. Laporte. 1785., Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: A wooded river landscape, traditionally identified as The Thames at Twickenham., and Signed lower left: J. Laporte 1785.
Subject (Geographic):
Thames River (England), and Twickenham (London, England)