Volume 1, page 11. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Georgivs Dvx Clarentia : Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh and Georgius Dux Clerentia
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscription in upper right corner of image: Georgivs Dvx Clarentia Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh ..., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 11 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a medal in the Library at Strawberry Hill, with the bust-length image of King Edward VI with crown on the obverse and on the reverse his coat of arms
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., 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):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait of the head of John Speed after the frontispiece to his British Isles atlas Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1631 onwards); the plate also appeared in the other editions of his atlases).
Alternative Title:
Aet. M. viri clarissimi Joannis Speed Farndoniae nati in Comitatu Cestriae
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Possibly by a young Christopher Barber?
Volume 1, page 15. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Inveniam viam avt faciam and Inveniam viam aut faciam
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Motto in upper left portion of image: Inveniam viam avt faciam., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 15 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.