Volume 4, after page 276. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., The nine depicted items, presumably tools used on a warship, are labeled in watercolor with their names and length measurements: Spunge &c. 9 feet long ; 2 f. 6 tomyhawk for boarding ; lower deck spunge & rammer ; Crow[?] iron 4 f. ; 9 feet ; 14 inch hatchet for cutting away [the] rigging ; Hand spike 5 feet ; 9 feet copper ladle ; Boarding spike 10 feet., With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock]., and Mounted after page 276 (leaf numbered '56' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Subject (Topic):
Equipment, Arms & armament, Crowbars, Axes, and Spears
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Design intended for use as a tail piece., and On page numbered 46 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Design intended for use as a tail piece., On page numbered 46 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 4.5 x 4.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to design.
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.
Portrait of Anthonis Mor (ca. 1517-1576 or 7), portrait painter, born in Utrecht, Netherlands. He worked in London from 1553 until 1555 in the service of Prince Philip (later Philip II of Spain) until 1555. In addition to the portraits of members of the English court, he also portrayed élite merchants and financiers
Alternative Title:
Sir Antonio More and Anthonis Mor
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Half-length, oval portrait of Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a ruff and armour
Alternative Title:
Sir Philip Sidney
Description:
Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing., Artist unknown., After a painting by Isaac Oliver, which was described in 1741 as in the collection of Sir Brownlow Sherrard Bart. A related painted portrait by an unknown artist is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv. no. 5732., and One of ten portraits in oil and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1766]
Call Number:
Drawer 769.00.00.82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Saint Martin dividing his cloak
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state in the British Museum., After a painting by Anthony van Dyck. Artist statement on lettered state makes a false attribution to Rubens; see British Museum online cat., registration number: 1870,0625.597., Plate no. 26 from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Watermark.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of printing based date of other similar works in collection., and Bound in a volume of prints: English cathedrals and monuments, numbered '14' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title supplied by cataloger. Possibly also St. John Baptist in Gloucester., Date of printing based date of other similar works in collection., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '13' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., and On leaf 51 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.