Title from caption below image., Text above image: Frontispiece., Date based on sitter's appropriate age for portrait., and Dedication below image: "To his most sacred majesty who is the head of the church ... this complete family bible is most dutifully inscrib'd."
Portrait of Hans Holbein; head and shoulders to right, looking towards the viewer; wearing a dark cap and doublet with standing collar
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Apparently engraved after Holbein's self-portrait, perhaps after the copy by Eccardt that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 101 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.
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
Title supplied by cataloger., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and Framed in paper: 328 x 249 mm.
Portrait of Jane Seymour; bust-length, turned to right; wearing gable head-dress with veil hanging over her left shoulder, a pearl necklace, and a gown with a square neckline
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably engraved after the drawing by Vertue, copied from an original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 101 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
"Portrait of John Jervis, half-length, seated to left in an armchair, with arms on chair arms; wearing a double-breasted coat fastened with four buttons, and star on his chest at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits.