Title devised by cataloger., Title from spine: Architectural drawings., Ms. note on front pastedown: 4th night lt 70. Bought at Doctor Mead's sale --- £2=2=0., and Press-mark on front flyleaf "A.L.30."
A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,