Volume 1, page 19. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., A grid has been added in pencil, presumably to assist with proportions while copying. Fourteen small sketches in ink, representing details within the image, are present in the margins., and Mounted on page 19 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
Description:
Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770., Unsigned; attributed to Francis Grose., and Date of production based on exhibition history; this drawing was exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs
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:
Watercolor drawing depicting a female figure carrying an anchor; from the painted glass window in the Library at Strawberry Hill
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 84 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.
Scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, act 3, scene 1. The Duke and Lord walking with their dogs in the forest of Arden, one turns to look at the figure of Jaques sitting and reading a book at left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., On verso is an unfinished pencil and watercolor drawing: [Group in classical costume]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, act 3, scene 1. The Duke and Lord walking with their dogs in the forest of Arden, one turns to look at the figure of Jaques sitting and reading a book at left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., On verso is an unfinished pencil and watercolor drawing: [Group in classical costume]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 15, after page 44. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Johan Rantzau
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the presumed late-1790s assembly date for the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Probably a copy of, or perhaps the original drawing for, a 1797 etching by G.P. Harding with the title: Johan Rantzau : Grand Mareschal de Danemarck, ob. 1565 ae. 73., and Bound in after page 44 in volume 15 of an extra-illustrated copy of James Granger's A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Samuel Johnson is shown full-length on the left, facing right and apparently asleep standing up; his knees are bent, his eyes are closed, and his head rests on his left hand. A second man stands on the right, hands in his coat pockets, looking over at Johnson; this figure may be Sir John Hawkins
Alternative Title:
Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Alternative title from description of original drawing in: Riely, J. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Library, 1973, no. 48., After a drawing that is probably the work of Samuel Collings., Printmaker attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
"A king-fisher and ducks, of the Battersea enamel: it was a manufacture, stamped with a copper plate, supported by Alderman Jansen, but failed"--From the 1774 Description. Formerly located in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title and date from dealer's catalog., Gilt bronze mount., Painted after Robert Hancock., and Also available as a digital reproduction.