[Geoffrey Chaucer] [art original]

Description

Title: [Geoffrey Chaucer] [art original]
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in pencil in lower right corner, using his monogrammatic initials.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: [Thi]s is a portrait of Geofery Chaucer, the father of English poetry, drawn after [an ol]d painting on wood by George Vertue.
One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Christie's, 20 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 306, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 15.3 x 10.1 cm, mounted to 23.2 x 18.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.2
Collection Title: Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]