Drogheda, Anne Moore, Countess of, 1744-1784, artist
Published / Created:
[1765]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 62 Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statements of responsibility written in ink in upper left corner., Note in ink at bottom of sheet, in Horace Walpole's hand: Drawing by Lady Anne Conway, Countess of Drogheda., and Mounted on page 62 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Winchelsea, Charles Finch, Earl of, 1672-1712, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1712?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 50. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's name in lower left corner. The identity of "Lord Maidstone" is pondered in Horace Walpole's ink annotation at bottom of mount: This was probably Charles Lord Maidstone, son of William lost in the Dutch war, & grandson of Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsea, whom he suceeded., Date of production based on death date of the presumed artist., Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing., and Mounted on page 50 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 1, page 60. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of a bust statue of a man, with Greek lettering on its base
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist unidentified., Date from pencil annotation "-Re-1743-" beneath image, which may represent the production date of the drawing., and Mounted on page 60 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Burlington, Dorothy Boyle, Countess of, 1699-1758, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1758]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, based on questionable identification of the sitter by curator., Statement of responsibility written in pencil above image. Additional statement written in ink on mounting sheet, in Horace Walpole's hand: Drawn by Lady Dorothy Saville, Countess of Burlington. H.W., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 19 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 1, opposite title page. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date of production based on Ottley's time at Winchester College, which ended by 1787 when he entered the Royal Academy Schools; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for William Young Ottley., and Mounted opposite title page in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 1, page 23. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title from later state., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Name of the sitter written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1772, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
Carlisle, Isabella Howard, Countess of, 1721-1795, artist
Published / Created:
[1760]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9 Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's initials in lower portion of image., Date of production from ink annotation below image: Isabella Carlisle 1760., and Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83., Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
