Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 44a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of an unidentified woman, bust-length, turned to the left; shoulder-length hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace and a gown with a low neckline
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Most likely drawn after a portrait kept by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill., and Inlaid on page 44a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 41 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
A full-length portrait of a boy in three-quarter view facing left. The subject stands on an ornate rug and rests one hand on the back of a red chair. He wears a black hat with red band atop a long curly wig and lavish gold and red garments over a white cravat and ruffled sleeves. Through an open passage on the right is a landscape with a large architectural structure. A distant figure stands before it. This portrait hung at Strawberry Hill and was identified by Horace Walpole as Dorothy Townshend painted by Godfrey Kneller. Dorothy Walpole Townshend was Horace Walpole’s aunt and godmother
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Formerly attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller and but now (2005) attributed to the Circle of Jacob Huysman.
Page 198. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., Mounted above on the same page is a pen and ink drawing by John Gooch: Wm. Cole de Milton juxta Cantabrigiam, A:M:., and Mounted on page 198 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).
An amateur drawing of a man with a mustache in an oval, half length, surrounded by an oval frame within a second square frame with double-ruled boarder
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Artist possibly the G. Cook identified in the British Museum catalogue?
Volume 1, page 17. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's name and date written in ink below image., This drawing was sent to Horace Walpole by John Fenn in 1774, with Walpole speculating on the identity of the sitter in his response. For a transcription of the letter and a reproduction of the drawing, see Horace Walpole's letter to John Fenn, 17 September 1774 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 16, pages 232-235)., and Mounted on page 17 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.
Portrait of an unknown man, half-length directed to right, head turned slightly left, coat buttoned partway up to the last three holes, unbuttoned in a non-standard configuration. His shirt's bosom ruffles protrude near the neck. Crossed diagonal lines compose the background within a roughly oval frame
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local record., Formerly thought to be a self-portrait of James Gillray. Note on verso indicates that Draper Hill determined in 1965 that it is not Gillray., and For further information, consult library staff.
LWL Ptg. 149 Framed, shelved in Object Room Rack 2.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A half-length portrait of the artist’s daughter’s Mary and Elizabeth who sit in close proximity. A large, fluted column in the right background defines the space. The two women are seated. One in profile holds a book in one hand. The other is raised with one finger pointed a gesture to underscore a point as she reads to her sister who leans in with an attentive ear. Both wear caps
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Related print: Bartolozzi, F. Portrait of Lady Diana Beauclerk's daughters sitting on a bench. [London] : Publish'd May 15th, 1780, by F. Bartolozzi, No. 1 Bentinck Street, in Berwick Street, Soho, [15 May 1780]. See Lewis Walpole Library impression in copies 4 and 11 of Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Folio 33 30).
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808., Walworth, Mary Beauclerk, 1766-1851,, and Pembroke, Elizabeth Beauclerk, Countess of, 1766-1793,
Two men sit at a table, drinking and smoking. The man on the left says to his companion, "Why Captain your nose and chin look as if they were going to fight they are in such a milling attitude." The man on the right with a large pock covered nose and large protuding chin responds, "Very likely my friend for a great many angry words have passed between them." On the wall behind them are two bookshelves, one of which contains a book entitled "Life in London" and "Tom and Jerry", as well as two prints, one showing two boxers fists raised as if in a bout and another military print
Description:
Title from ms. caption on mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 20 x 27 cm., and Ms. caption on mount: Preparing for battle.