"Bust portrait of George III looking in profile to the right. He wears a turban decorated with a jewelled crescent and aigrette, a furred robe over an embroidered tunic. The dress and the ironical title are intended to show that the king is acting the part of an oriental tyrant."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date from British Museum catalogue.
Volume 1, page 5. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 5 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.
Volume 1, page 5. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 5 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.
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Harold
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 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.
Watercolor drawing depicting a head of King Henry III carved in oak. The king wears a crown, and curled hair protrudes out from under it on both sides. The date(?) "12 III 16" and decorative symbols fill the space above the head
Alternative Title:
Henry III
Description:
Title from note in black ink below image, perhaps in the artist's hand., Artist's name added by Horace Walpole in brown ink in lower right corner., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Three lines of descriptive text written below title in black ink: This head (carv'd in oak) is in the possession of Dr. Palmer of Peterborough Northamton shire and was brought from Barnwell Church near Oundle Norn. shire about 40 years ago. Henry the Third endow'd this church. This drawing is half the size of the original head., Two additional annotations by Horace Walpole in brown ink are present; below the descriptive text is written "The upper part above the crown is modern, and the date wrong" and at the bottom of the sheet is written "Now at Mr. Walpole's at Strawberry Hill.", and Mounted on page 73 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.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Publisht 16 Feb. 1750, according to Act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Print30011
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
King Edward VI granting the charter for Bridewell Hospital to Sir George Barnes
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Translated title supplied by curator., In margin upper right: PL. VI., Caption in Latin and English., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553. and Bridewell Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Hospitals, Kings, Thrones, Charters, Mayors, and Government officials
Opposite page 109. Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of Richard III, three-quarter length, turned slightly right; wearing a crown and robe; holding a sword in his right hand and the globus cruciger in his left hand. Copied from a full-length double portrait drawing of Richard III and Queen Anne
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Artist unidentified; done after a drawing by George Vertue that was owned by Horace Walpole and kept at Strawberry Hill., Date of production based on publication date of the extra-illustrated volume into which this drawing was inserted., and Tipped in opposite page 109 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third. London : W. and S. Wybrow [etc.], 1822.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watercolor drawing depicting one wall of the chancel inside Barnwell Church, where the carved head of King Henry III was formerly located. The bottom parts of two windows, one of stained glass, are seen at top; an arch is built into the bottom part of the wall and a decorated rectangular structure is to the left of the arch
Description:
Title from note in black ink at bottom of sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Annotation in center of image in black ink: Head of King Henry the Third. About forty years ago the chancel of Barnwell Church (near Barnwell Castle two miles from Oundle) was repaired[?] and the head taken down by the carpenter employ'd, in whose hands it remaind. & his sons thirty years - who gave it to a carpenter of Peterborough where is remain'd till it came into the possession of Dr. Palmer of Peterborough. N.B. King Henry endow'd Barnwell Church., and Mounted on page 73 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.
Title from auction description., Attribution to Theodore Lane from auction description., Date of production based on artist's death date., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 1, page 170.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a sixteenth-century document, with a decorative design and coat of arms on top and sides and armorial seals below. The decorative initial "T" contains a figure with a crown. The text itself is written in brown ink and is signed "C.B. alias Gartier" in the lower right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Tipped in at page 170.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Topic):
Kings, Helmets, Coats of arms, and Seals (Insignia)
