Volume 1, page 69. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Milton's cottage at Chalfont
Description:
Title from ink annotation on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Statement of responsibility and date written beneath title on verso, in an unidentified hand., and Mounted on page 69 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 (Geographic):
Chalfont St. Giles (England)
Subject (Name):
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763?]
Call Number:
Portraits V568 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust of George Vertue with cap, in oval, looking left, after oil painting by Richardson
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate originally issued preceding "The life of George Vertue" in: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers. Strawberry-Hill : 1763., and Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
An autographed letter signed (partially rubbed off) discussing family matters and financial concerns to his relative the Hon. Thomas Symonds at his seat at Pengethly in Herefordshire. Written on the verso of Vertue's engraving of "The west prospect of St. Martin's Church in the Fields, Westminster." Formerly folded to letter size, with address and wax seal back, opposite text. With the engraved dedication erased and replaced in ink with a personalized note to "Dr. Thomas Symonds"; with other alterations to engraved text and replaced with ms. notes
Description:
In English., Written on the back of a George Vertue print entitled: The west prospect of St. Martin's Church in the Fields., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Vertue, George, 1684-1756. and Symonds, Thomas, Dr.
Volume 1, page 53. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Brass term sold at Lord Halifax sale
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., With a "scale of feet" drawn to the left of image, and the note "brass- gilt- with gold" written to the right of image., and Mounted on page 53 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 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bulla of Pope Boniface IX
Description:
Title from ink inscription below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 77 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 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from ink inscription at top of image., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., With a scale in feet drawn to the right of image. Also with the note "x this part pulld. down by the late Lord -", referring to an "x" marked on the top portion of the depicted structure., and Mounted on page 71 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 (Geographic):
Tottenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Towers
Volume 1, page 23. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bilson Bishop Winton and Bilson Bishop Winchester
Description:
Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 23 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 9. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bishop Wainfleet and Bishop Waynflete
Description:
Title written in pencil below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 9 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 39. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bishop of Worcester
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 39 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 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 33 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 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 17. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Gray, Queen of Edward IV and Elizabeth Grey, Queen of Edward IV
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 17 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 (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492,
Volume 1, page 13. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Friar Bacon
Description:
Title written in block letters at top of 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.
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.
Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hungerfords Chapel
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., An inscription from the depicted painting is reproduced in ink below title., and Mounted on page 49 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 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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 39. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lake Bishop Bath Wells
Description:
Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 39 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 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 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 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon.", Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 37 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):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from contemporary manuscript annotation in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date based on that of the printed work for which this design was made., Original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to v.1 of: Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales sex regum Angliae. Oxonii [Oxford] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719-1722., 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.
Volume 1, page 29. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Samuel Daniel
Description:
Title from inscription in pencil above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Below title is written "pub. 1609"; in lower right corner is written "gravd. by TCockson[?] sculp.", Likely drawn after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson on the title page to: Daniel, S. The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke. Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 29 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 25. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir F. Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon
Description:
Title inscribed in ink in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., 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.
Volume 1, page 29. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir Thomas Overbury
Description:
Title inscribed in ink in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 29 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 27. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir Waltar Ralagh Knight and Sir Walter Raleigh Knight
Description:
Title from inscription in lower left corner., Date supplied by cataloger., A grid has been added in pencil over the drawing., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 27 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 31. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir William Sidney and Sr. William Sydney
Description:
Title from note below image, in ink over pencil. Sitter's name with alternative spelling is written in pencil in upper right corner: Sr. William Sydney., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 31 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 69. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil in upper left corner., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 69 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 67. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Rochester Bridge with dimensions
Description:
Title inscribed within banner at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Additional measurements of the bridge are given in notes on either side of title., and Mounted on page 67 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 73. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink in upper left corner., Date supplied by cataloger., With four lines of verse in ink to the left of the depicted figure: Time swift doth run, to judgment thou must come; prepare for Death lest hee send theto woe & miserie., Also with nineteen numbered notes in ink below image, describing various aspects of the depicted figure's dress., and Mounted on page 73 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 41. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Monument for Sir Robert de Hungerford
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Inscription below title, in a different hand: This monumental inscription is cutt in brass, and sett in black marble, fixt into the south wall of a small chapple joyning to the church of Hungerford. Comm. Berks., Inscription at bottom of sheet: There formerly lay under it, the figure of a man in armour cross legg'd, but that is remov'd into another part of the church and is much defaced., and Mounted on page 41 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):
Hungerford, Robert Hungerford, Baron, approximately 1429-1464. and Salisbury Cathedral.