Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist / Subject (Topic): Spears

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Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1853]
Call Number:: 24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:: Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears and a spiked mace stick out from the left side of the center stack; a variety of axes stick out from the right side
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted before title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Armor, Arms & armament, Helmets, Spears, Shields, and Axes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Armor in a niche] [art original].

Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1824]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Wash drawing of the Indian weapons, in the Armoury at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 78 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Arms & armament, Arrows, Axes, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Quiver with arrows, Indian lance and hatchet] [art original].