Page 199. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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Title and date written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 199 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 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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View of the lake and Temple of Aesculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792
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Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted below on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: Ideal landscape., and Mounted on page 192 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).
Full-length portrait of a soldier, in profile to the left, a rifle with bayonet resting against his left shoulder
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Title from inscription below image., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Probably a study drawing for one of the plates from Loyal Volunteers of London & environs ..., published by R. Ackermann in 1799. For a similar study by Rowlandson for the same publication, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1666.
Volume 1, page 25. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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Walter Raleigh Knight
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Title inscribed in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., After a painting by an unidentified artist, with the date "1602" inscribed both below image and in upper left corner. The original painting is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 3914)., and Mounted on page 25 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.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618, and Raleigh, Walter, 1593-1618,
Volume 1, page 13. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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Title from contemporary note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 13 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.
Page 198. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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William Cole of Milton near Cambridge, A.M.
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Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on verso, in William Cole's hand., Mounted below on the same page is a pencil drawing by Lady Diana Beauclerk: [Portrait of a young lady]., and Mounted on page 198 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 75. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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Title devised by curator., Seemingly signed with initials and dated by the artist; the indeterminate, monogrammatic signature may be "CAv." or "Av.", With three stanzas of a song from Henry Carey's 1735 ballad farce The honest Yorkshireman written below image: Come hither my country squire, take friendly instructions from me ..., and Mounted on page 75 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.
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
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Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Page 174. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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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 174 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 121.14. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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Title supplied by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., On sheet with thirteen lines of manuscript bearing the title "Histy. of Norfolk - Houghton" at top; the name "Walpole" is written immediately to the left of image, and the name "Etchingham" immediately to the right., and Mounted on page 121.14 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.