Lord Vaux author of the grave diggers song in Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 : from a drawing by Vertue in the possession of the Hon. Horace Walpole, from the original by Holbien [sic] / [graphic]

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Title: Lord Vaux author of the grave diggers song in Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 : from a drawing by Vertue in the possession of the Hon. Horace Walpole, from the original by Holbien [sic] / [graphic]
Creator: Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Harding, E. 1755-1840, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 September 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Sepr. 10, 1791, by E. Harding, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of Thomas Vaux, half-length to right, with beard and moustache, wearing a dark pyramid-shaped hat and slashed jerkin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793.
Mounted on page 121 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.9 x 13.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.8 x 14 cm, on sheet 20.2 x 16 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1791
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Vaux, Thomas Vaux, Baron, 1510-1556,
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Vaux, Thomas Vaux, Baron, 1510-1556
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 12969053
Object ID (OID): 16729722