1.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1757]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 53
- Abstract:
- A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
- Alternative Title:
- Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
- Description:
- Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].