Call Number: 49 2519 v.2 - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [not after 1797]
Call Number:: 49 2519 v.2
Collection Title:: Volume 2, opposite page 8. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from text in image; remainder of title from note in ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose annotation is present on sheet., and Bound in opposite page 8 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Kings porter and dwarf from a bas relief in stone in the front of a house at the corner of Bagnio-Court the north side of Newgate-Street. [art original]

Published / Created:: [not after 1797]
Call Number:: 49 2519 v.2
Collection Title:: Volume 2, end flyleaf. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Simplified depiction of the memorial to the architect Robert Smythson in St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton. A coat of arms is drawn at the top of the sheet, with the text of the epitaph written below. The decorative stonework, which surrounds the epitaph on the memorial, is not depicted
Alternative Title:: Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector ...
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., Text of epitaph: Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector and svrvayor vnto the most worthy hovse of Wollaton with diverse others of great accovnt, he lived in [the] fayth of Christ 79 yeares, & then departed this life [the] XVh of October, año Dm̃i 1614., and Mounted on end flyleaf in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Subject (Name):: Smythson, Robert, 1534 or 1535-1614.
Subject (Topic):: Monuments & memorials and Coats of arms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Epitaph for Robert Smythson] [art original].