[Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior] [art original].

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Title: [Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior] [art original].
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Stone, Henry, bap.1616-1653, artist.
Published / Created: drawn June anno 1721.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
Description: Title devised be cataloger.
Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c.
Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life.
Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit.
Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 12 x 92 cm, on sheet 14.3 x 10 cm, mounted to 14.7 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Monuments
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: black and red ink with wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647,
Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
Subject (Topic): Artists
British
Sculptors
Architects
Subjects: Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647 > Monuments
Artists > British
Sculptors > British
Architects > British
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.