[Sir Edward Nicholas] [art original].

Description

Title: [Sir Edward Nicholas] [art original].
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Twenty-six lines of biographical information written in ink on verso, with the contemporary note at top: This is a portrait of Sr. Edward Nicholas, drawn from an old 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. Sitter's name written in pencil at bottom of mount: Sr. Edd. Nicholas.
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 17.4 x 14.7 cm, mounted to 25.0 x 22.4 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]