Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1805]
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Opposite page 311. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Anne Vane, maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach and mistress to her son Frederick, Prince of Wales; bust-length, head turned slightly to the left; a stern expression on her face; wearing a low-cut gown and pearls in her hair
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from signature on a similar drawing mounted in the same volume., Date of production inferred from similar drawing in the same volume with the date "1805" written on it., and Mounted opposite page 311 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: 'Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?', '"I created it."', 'Created it friend?', '"Yea verily - for I said, "Let it be made, and it was made!!'.
Description:
Title from caption inscribed at bottom of design in black ink., Date based on published etching with this design, same title, and text: Pubd. Apl. 1830, by S. Gan's Southampton St. See British Museum online catalog. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
At the edge of a small pond, a mallard duck (left) formally dressed in a morning coat and top hat flaps his wings at a female turkey (right) wearing a shawl and bonnet. She looks back over her shoulder at him with a coy expression
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Quarter-length portrait in profile to left of a fashionably dressed Oxonian wearing a subtlyhaughty expression on his face
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from note inscribed in pencil below image: 1840., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward, One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Quarter-length portrait in profile to right of a fashionably dressed Oxonian in cap and gown, serious expression, and long curly hair
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and from inscribed note., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Opposite page 86. Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne; half-length, head turned slightly left; wearing a feathered hat and a fur-lined coat; in an oval within a rectangle
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on publication date of the extra-illustrated volume into which this drawing was inserted., and Tipped in opposite page 86 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.
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1856?]
Call Number:
Drawings F171 no. 1 Box D120
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Ink drawing of the 14th century bridge in Florence -- Ponte alle Grazie -- with a view of the hills in the distance and the buildings of Florence on either side of the bridge
Description:
Frederick William Fairholt (1814-1866), English artist and antiquary, signed his prints "F.W.F"., Title from item., Signed by the artist in lower right corner: "F.W.F"., and Date of drawing based on artist's visit to Italy with Lord Londesborough in 1856.
Count Przobosky wildly rears a horse in a grand room knocking over furniture to the shock and astonishment of distrressed onlookers
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
A man in profile to right wearing a floppy-brimmed hat and a long coat sits in a wooden chair and leans forward onto his crossed legs, seemingly engaged in an absorbing conversation
Description:
Title from text inscribed in ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
