Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
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2
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still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in pencil in lower right corner, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: [Thi]s is a portrait of Geofery Chaucer, the father of English poetry, drawn after [an ol]d painting on wood by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 1, page 11. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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Alternative Title:
Georgivs Dvx Clarentia : Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh and Georgius Dux Clerentia
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscription in upper right corner of image: Georgivs Dvx Clarentia Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh ..., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 11 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.
Drawings B268 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room B:C
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1
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A view of Hampton House (Garrick Villa) including Shakespeare's Temple in the distance and men with resting under a tree in the foreground, one walking with a fishing rod, and others walking in the distance on the other side of a pond
Page 177. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
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Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 177 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Page 179. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
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still image
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Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 179 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Volume 1, page 19. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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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.
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 42 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Page 190. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Trees and bench
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Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing; alternative statement of responsibility "by Lady Beaclerc [sic]" written in pencil at top of image., and Mounted on page 190 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were issued with the work
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Many of the drawings have the sitter's name written below, and most are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see name authority record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de Mme. du Deffand avec la duchesse de Choiseul ... Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1866., and Extra-illustrated: plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
