A portrait of Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di Pescara; bust length, head in profile to the left; with a long beard; wearing a helmet with a white feather on top
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with one other drawing on page 79 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Pescara, Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di, 1489-1525,
Page 186. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 186 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 2, after page 84. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in ink below image, in open block letters., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., and Mounted after page 84 (leaf numbered '47' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.