A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...

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Title: A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...
Alternative Title: Brass term sold at Lord Halifax sale
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from ink inscription in lower right corner.
Date supplied by cataloger.
With a "scale of feet" drawn to the left of image, and the note "brass- gilt- with gold" written to the right of image.
Mounted on page 53 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Lord Waldegrave, July 1948, to W.S. Lewis, in a collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 15.0 x 9.4 cm, mounted to 18.2 x 10.9 cm, on page 41 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 53. 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]