Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1802 and 1853?]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 5 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait in an oval of a woman wearing a cap and mid-18th century dress. She is facing slightly to the left but looking towards the viewer
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853., Inscription in pencil: by [G.P.] Harding?, and Inscription in pencil on verso: Miss Hannah Norsa d. 1785.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date from watermark: G & R Turner 1832., and Mounted opposite title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 56d. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of an unidentified man, three-quarter length, turned to the right; wearing a curled wig and a long coat; right hand in his coat pocket, tricorne held under his right arm
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 56d 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].
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.
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).
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.
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,
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.
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.