- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- pubd. as the act directs, April 1st, 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B28 804
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Full-length portrait, seated on a chair in centre, writing a music score on a table, looking up to top right; to right, a young angel standing in profile to left, putting a crown of laurels over Handel's head; a little angel flying above them, holding a banner with Handel's name; light shining from top; pipe-organ to left; in an oval frame decorated with laurels and a banner; book-illustration to 'An account of the musical performances in commemoration of Handel'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 19 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759,
- Subject (Topic):
- Angels, Music, and Musicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From harmony, from heavenly harmony this universal frame began / [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Collection of small engravings from various works printed at Strawberry Hill. These include two fleurons, two decorated initial letters, two of Horace Walpole's bookplates (one printed on orange paper), and several vignettes, two of which are signed "C. Grignion sculp." Among the vignettes are several images of Strawberry Hill, one annotated "R. Bentley del." by Thomas Kirgate and another, printed in blue ink, annotated "J.H. Muntz del." by Horace Walpole. In addition to the arms on Walpole's bookplates, the Walpole crest is depicted on one vignette (annotated "Wale des." by Thomas Kirgate) and the Buckingham coat of arms with the motto "Templa quam dilecta" is depicted on another. Also included is a portrait in profile of Antonio Magliabechi, done from a medal; this is an early state of the plate printed on the title page of: Spence, J. A parallel : in the manner of Plutarch ... [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, by W. Robinson ..., 1758
- Description:
- Title from note in Horace Walpole's hand near bottom of page., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled this collection., Sheets trimmed to or within plate marks., and Prints mounted together on page 188 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:
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Subject (Name):
- Magliabechi, Antonio, 1633-1714,
- Subject (Topic):
- Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fleurons & vignettes to the Strawberry editions] [graphic].