A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir John Fastolf with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 50" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Walter Mauny (Manny) with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Thomas Earl of Warwick with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 30" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of, approximately 1339-1401.
Volume 1, page 170.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a sixteenth-century document, with a decorative design and coat of arms on top and sides and armorial seals below. The decorative initial "T" contains a figure with a crown. The text itself is written in brown ink and is signed "C.B. alias Gartier" in the lower right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Tipped in at page 170.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Topic):
Kings, Helmets, Coats of arms, and Seals (Insignia)
Volume 2, opposite page 178. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the finely carved chair, the back ornamented with grotesque heads and the center bearing the date 1601, that was owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 117 on the seventeenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., At top of sheet is a small (30 x 50 mm) pen and ink drawing showing the details of the coat of arms carved into the backrest of the chair., and Bound in opposite page 178 in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Volume 2, end flyleaf. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Simplified depiction of the memorial to the architect Robert Smythson in St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton. A coat of arms is drawn at the top of the sheet, with the text of the epitaph written below. The decorative stonework, which surrounds the epitaph on the memorial, is not depicted
Alternative Title:
Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector ...
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., Text of epitaph: Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector and svrvayor vnto the most worthy hovse of Wollaton with diverse others of great accovnt, he lived in [the] fayth of Christ 79 yeares, & then departed this life [the] XVh of October, año Dm̃i 1614., and Mounted on end flyleaf in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentifed., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Possibly a depiction of one of the tiles with arms, from the catherdral at Gloucester, that was in the floor of the China Room at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill house., and Mounted on page 25 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.
Volume 2, page 396.4. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of two circular seals side-by-side, the leftmost seal showing an armorial shield with bear and griffin supporters, surmounted by two helmets. On the seal on the right a shield on its side flanked by a lion rampant and an eagle, with feathers on either side and a crowned lion at top; this seal also has Latin text around its edge
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 396.4 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Volume 2, page 398.3. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of two seals, one above the other. The top seal shows Henry VIII on a throne holding the globus cruciger in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand; he is flanked by two armorial shields surmounted by crowns, and Latin text runs along the circular border of the seal. The bottom a seal of the Archbishop of York with Saint Peter holding a key and Saint Paul with a sword under the arches of a building and with Cardinal Thomas Wosley's coat of arms (in reverse) below identified by text in Latin encircling the border
Alternative Title:
Ego et rex meus
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 398.3 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Seals (Insignia), Coats of arms, Kings, and Clergy