Richard III [art original]

Description

Title: Richard III [art original]
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1822]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Richard III, three-quarter length, turned slightly right; wearing a crown and robe; holding a sword in his right hand and the globus cruciger in his left hand. Copied from a full-length double portrait drawing of Richard III and Queen Anne
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Artist unidentified; done after a drawing by George Vertue that was owned by Horace Walpole and kept at Strawberry Hill.
Date of production based on publication date of the extra-illustrated volume into which this drawing was inserted.
Tipped in opposite page 109 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.
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Henry Sage to W.S. Lewis, October 1946.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 14.2 x 9 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 12 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 19 822 Copy 2
Collection Title: Opposite page 109. Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: London : W. and S. Wybrow [etc.], 1822.

Genre: Portraits
Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Kings
Subjects: Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 > Portraits
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Kings > Great Britain
British > 19th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard III. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.