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:
Wash drawing of an ossuaria located in the Library at Strawberry Hill, decorated with two rams heads, a festoon with birds above and below, and a Latin inscription
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 90 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.
St. Peter and St. Paul healing a crippled beggar at the gate of the temple
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence., Engraving from a set of 35 plates: The Acts of the Apostles., Below image is a Biblical verse in Latin, Acts. Chap. 14., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Apostle, Saint. and Barnabas, Apostle, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, People with disabilities, Medicine, Religious aspects, Spiritual healing, Disabled persons, Saints, Spectators, and Carts & wagons
Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 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.
Additional ms. notes on leaf 95 (verso) to leaf 97., Contemporary binding, with heavy metal bosses., Manuscript, on vellum, in various hands approximately 1469 to 1543. Rubricated., and The contents of this volume are the same as in the edition of 1609.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Connecticut -- New Haven and Ordinances, Municipal -- Italy -- Ceneda
Title devised by cataloger., Designed by Richard Bentley in 1757 and probably engraved by Grignion. See Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, page xxv., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted on page 3.
Publisher:
Horace Walpole
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),