Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus" and "ob. 1667, aet. 49.", Date and place of publication surmised from data on similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,59.4., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Satire on Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquarian, showing a tavern on the western edge of Oxford near Rewley with Abbey presented as an archaeological reconstruction. A large house with outbuildings in a garden where one man in academic robes approaches another who waits for him on a bench; various elements are lettered A - H. Above three separate views are presented as if drawings pinned to a wall: "The Plan of the Hall with the Tesellated Floor" representing a floor of sheep's bones mistaken by Hearne for an ancient mosaic; the gateway to the hall, labelled "Propylaeum"; three men arm in arm (Humphrey Wanley, Thomas Hearne and John Whiteside) outside the Sheldonian Theatre; in the centre, a shield with three large flagons; ribbons bearing a description of these "Antient Arms" and the title"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Antiquity Hall suburbanum Oxonienses and Antiqvity Hall suburbanum Oxon
Description:
Title from banner within image., Attribution to Vertue and publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's ms. annotations below plate mark., and Mounted to 36 x 44 cm.
"Portrait, half-length to front, with head turned to left, looking to front; in an oval frame decorated with flowers, placed on a pedestal decorated with garlands, on which lie a vase with flowers, fruits, palm leaves, a palette with brushes, a portrait miniature of a woman, and a sketch of trees; curtain above; shield with Garter star in foreground on left, with ribbon lettered with motto 'FARI QVÆ SENTIAT'; balustrade on right; curtain above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publication information from that of the volume in which this plate appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 166 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 15.7 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait, half-length to front, with head turned to left, looking to front; in an oval frame decorated with flowers, placed on a pedestal decorated with garlands, on which lie a vase with flowers, fruits, palm leaves, a palette with brushes, a portrait miniature of a woman, and a sketch of trees; curtain above; shield with Garter star in foreground on left, with ribbon lettered with motto 'FARI QVÆ SENTIAT'; balustrade on right; curtain above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publication information from that of the volume in which this plate appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 130 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22 x 15.5 cm.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from text in image., Text at top of image: "Mon dieu et droit.", and Plate from: Vertue, G. The heads of the kings of England. London : Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, 1736.
"Portrait of Sir William Temple, half-length to right, with head turned to front, looking towards left; wearing a wig, loose gown, and lace cravat; in an oval frame decorated on top with Acanthus leaves and ribbon lettered with motto "Servare modum [...] sequi.", placed on a pedestal, with coat of arms in front."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontipiece to: The works of Sir William Temple. London : Printed for A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke [and 6 others in London], 1720., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of Latin text below title: Sermi. et Potmi. Mag. Brittanniae Regis ad Ords. Faedti. Belgÿ̈ Legatus ..., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 76 (leaf numbered '125' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke, and 6 others
"Portrait, half-length to left, looking upwards towards right; wearing armour, broad lace-trimmed collar, and a badge on a ribbon around his neck; curtain behind; in an oval frame with flower garland on top right, star above in centre, and drapery on left and along front; placed behind pedestals on which lie a helmet, sword, staff, key, and piece of paper lettered "The Rt. Honbl."; crest with crown in foreground on left; illustration to Tindal's 'The continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England' (London); proof before letters.'--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: In the possession of his Grace the Duke of Dorset., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
George Vertue
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Determined to be the republished state from 1776 based on the type of paper on which the plate is printed., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate was published., Plate from: Vertue, G. A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. [London] : Republished by the Society [of Antiquaries of London], 1776., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., "Pl. IV"--Above image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1853,0112.1932., and Mounted on page 100 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Print, half-length portrait of Francis Beaumont, dramatist, engraving by George Vertue after an unknown artist."--Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset
Description:
Title and subtitle from text in image., Caption below image: "Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset &c. Nobilissimo Ordinis Periscelides Equiti. Hanc tabulum ad archetypum in ipsius adibus expressam. Humil. D.D.D. G. Vertue.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait of George Granville, Baron Lansdowne, half-length to left, with head turned to look at viewer, wearing cap, open coat and shirt, his left hand inside the breast of his coat; coat of arms below image."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Frontispiece to: The genuine works in verse and prose, of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. London : Printed for J. Tonson and L. Gilliver, 1732., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of statements of responsibility. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Q,1.14., Mounted on page 72 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from text in image., Plate from: Sixty sermons preach'd on several occasions. Oxford : Printed at the Theater, 1724., and Mounted in paper frame: 369 x 258 mm.
Portrait of Henry IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, holding his sceptre against his left shoulder and a rose in his right hand, with a small beard and moustache and a turban with a jewelled brooch, dressed in an embroidered doublet lined with ermine with a chain of office about his neck; in a rectangular frame with ornaments including at the top with two lions with a paw each on a rose with a crown overhead. Below another crest with weapons with banners labeled "Lancaster".
Alternative Title:
Henry the Fourth and Henry IV
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "Taken from a Picture at Hampton Court, Herefordshire.", and Plate to folio ed. of Rapin and Tindal's History of England, 1732-1733.
"Portrait of Henry, Lord Darnley, King of Scotland, set into a frame with emblems relating to him; illustration to Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1736"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henry Lord Darnley King of Scotland
Description:
Title from text in image., Text in image below sitter: Ao. dat. MDLXIII, aeta XVII., Plate from: Vertue, G. Heads of the kings of England. London : Knapton, 1736., and Original portrait currently attributed to Hans Ewouts. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1979,U.1241.
"Tree of law in a frame decorated with a garland of leaves, surmounted by a portrait of Robert Price in an oval, wearing a long wig and judges' robes and bands, with banner lettered 'Legum Decus Patriae Que Is Erat'; to left and right, two female allegorical figures standing on pedestals; lettered in Latin on pedestals, banners and branches of tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Inutilis et sine fructu labor, non est legis, effectus
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0809.1492, Portrait of Robert Price based on that by Kneller; see British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by Ph. Overton in Fleet Street and J. King in the Poultry, Printsellers entered in the Hall Book, London
"Portrait of John of Gaunt in a Gothic arch set into a composition alluding to events of his reign; plate from Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1735."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John of Gaunt, King of Castile & Leon, Duke of Lancaster
Description:
Title from text in image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Text below image: "Painted on Glass in an Antient Window in [the] Library of All Souls Coll. Oxon."
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
"Portrait of John Gower; bust, in profile to the right; wearing chaplet of roses around his head; in a rectangle frame, set within architectural details; a tablet below, with his three principal works in front, and a further book open to a page with an illustration of his monument in Southwark Cathedral; the portrait taken from his effigy on this monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Text below image: "Honoratiss Dno Ioanni Levison Gower Domino Gower; hanc effigiem humillime D.D. / G. Vertue." per image in British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,1.338., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of text below design., and In white paper frame with green gouche, yellow wash, and black ink frame: 420 x 360 mm.
Title from text in image., Text in image above sitter's name: nat. 1632; denat aetat 68., Text in image below sitter's name: "... whose tunefull [sic] muse affords the sweetest numbers and the fittest words. Addison.", Caption below image: Praenobili dno. dno. Edoardo comiti Oxoniae, &c. ad archetypu[m] museo Harleyano asservatum qua[m] par est observantia[m], D. D. Vertue sculptr., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Mounted on sheet: 326 x 257 mm.
"Portrait of John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, set into a composition with his arms; plate from Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1735"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity., and Text below image: "From a curious Limning in a (MS) rich Prayerbook presented by himself to K. Hen. 6 now in the Possession of the Earl of Oxford."
"Portrait of Charles I, set into a classical frame in robes of state and with symbols in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King Charles I
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "From an excellent Original in the Royal Palace at Hampton Court.", and Plate from: Rapin de Thoyras, M. The history of England. London, Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1732-47.
"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated to left in a high-back chair, looking to front; wearing a wig and ecclesiastical robes and bands; his right hand on his knee, pointing forwards with his index finger; his left arm resting on a table, with hand on a closed book; pillar in background on left; in reverse after Seeman; proof before letters."-- from similar print in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A double portrait showing Mary Tudor and her second husband Charles Brandon, half-length; with Mary on the left, holding an emblem consisting of a caduceus emerging from a flower in her right hand, the other held by Charles Brandon, who wears a fur-trimmed overgown and the collar of the Garter, with a curtain behind to left, and with crown, Hand of Justice, sceptre, crests, lance and gloves on the plinth of the frame surrounding them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Her Royal Grace the Queen of France, sister of K. Henry VIII, married to Lewis XII [the] French king, afterwards to the Duke of Suffolk
Description:
Title engraved within banner below image on inner plate; alternative title engraved within lion's hide on outer plate., Determined to be the republished state from 1776 based on the type of paper., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Vertue, G. A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. [London] : Republished by the Society [of Antiquaries of London], 1776., Image printed from two plates; the larger architectural frame surrounding the main image is engraved on a separate, outer plate., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark of outer plate with loss of plate number from top edge and dedication from bottom edge. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Y,5.143., At bottom of outer plate is engraved a dedication from the engraver to John Carteret, Earl of Granville, contemporary owner of the original., "Pl. III"--Above image in upper right., Engraved after a painting that was later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 114 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated slightly to left on a high-back chair, with head turned to look towards right; wearing a cap, long open coat over buttoned waistcoat, shirt with lace ruffles at the wrists, and cravat; his right arm resting on a table, holding a quill pen in his hand; his left hand inside breast of coat; after Richardson; touched impression."--British Museum online catalogue
Portrait of Alexander Pope; half length, to the left, looking at viewer, his right hand on body; in oval frame of oak leaves, on pedestal
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope
Description:
Title engraved below image., The print was used as the frontispiece to the first collected volume of Pope's Works in 1717., Date from British Museum online catalogue., After the portrait by Charles Jervas., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly laid in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's copy of: Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (London : Printed by W. Bowyer for B. Lintot, 1717-1735). Now unfolded and housed separately in a solander box. See volume 1: 49 320.
"Engraving of Oliver Cromwell. Bust length with long hair, plain collar, and armour. Within an oval border with coat of arms on a pedestal below. With English inscription below."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters "S" and "C" in artist's signature form a monogram., Frontispiece to an unidentified edition of: Kimber, I. The life of Oliver Cromwell ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge. Complete title from impression in the Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 602205., and Mounted on page 147 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.
Publisht 16 Feb. 1750, according to Act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Print30011
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
King Edward VI granting the charter for Bridewell Hospital to Sir George Barnes
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Translated title supplied by curator., In margin upper right: PL. VI., Caption in Latin and English., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553. and Bridewell Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Hospitals, Kings, Thrones, Charters, Mayors, and Government officials
"Portrait, half-length to right, with head turned to look towards front; wearing a long wig, loose cloak above armour, and lace collar; his right forearm resting on frame, holding a book open with thumb between the pages; in rectangular frame on pedestal with convex front; coat of arms and books in foreground, one on right lettered "Histor[y] of Engla[nd]"; after a drawing by Vertue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Place of publication taken from printmaker's known place of activity.
"Portrait of Humphrey Gower; half-length, slightly to right, looking towards left; wearing a wig, fur-trimmed robes and clerical bands; in an oval frame with a ribbon on top, and decoration of oak leaves around, placed on a pedestal; after Fellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.
"Portrait of Thomas Tanner, half-length to right, looking to front; wearing ecclesiastical robes and bands; in an oval frame, with putto and Acanthus leaves on top, placed behind a marble container with coat of arms in front; books on left, burning lamp on right; impression pasted onto sheet of paper; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and In paper frame: 399 x 280 mm.
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and In paper frame: 417 x 290 mm.
"Portrait of Sarah Duchess of Somerset, whole length; seated to right in front of a curtain on an elevated pedestal, looking to front; wearing pearl earrings, and fur-trimmed cape over low-cut dress with lace collar and jewels; pointing downwards with the index finger of her right hand; her left hand resting on a crown on a table, next to a closed book; pillar on right; after Quinckhard."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in image: "M.S.P. Sara Illustrissima Nuper Ducissa Somersetensis ... MDCXCII.", and After Jan Maurits Quinckhard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Sarah Alston Seymour, Duchess of, 1631-169,
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to left, wearing long, curly wig, robes and chain of the Order of the Garter, and lace cravat; in ornamental oval frame on table, on which are papers, purse of the Great Seal, portrait bust, plumed hat, cornucopia with money, and other emblems; coat of arms at lower right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744
Description:
Title from text in image., Year "1735" at end of artist's signature later changed to "1744" on plate. For the later state with altered date, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Publication information from that of the volume to which this plate is the frontispiece., Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 166 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 15.9 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to left, wearing long, curly wig, robes and chain of the Order of the Garter, and lace cravat; in ornamental oval frame on table, on which are papers, purse of the Great Seal, portrait bust, plumed hat, cornucopia with money, and other emblems; coat of arms at lower right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744
Description:
Title from text in image., Year "1735" at end of artist's signature later changed to "1744" on plate. For the later state with altered date, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Publication information from that of the volume to which this plate is the frontispiece., Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 130 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Year "1735" at end of artist's signature has been altered to "1744" in brown ink, in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
View of the charity-children in the Strand, upon the VII of July, MDCCXII ...
Description:
Title in Latin from text in lower portion of image on first plate; title in English from text in lower portion of image on second plate., Text within scroll in lower left corner of first plate: The first hymn sung by the charity children. Lord give the Queen thy saving health ..., Text within scroll in lower right corner of second plate: The second hymn sung by the charity children. Glory to God, who reigns on high ..., and Watermark.
View of the charity-children in the Strand, upon the VII of July, MDCCXII ...
Description:
Title in Latin from text in lower portion of image on first plate; title in English from text in lower portion of image on second plate., Text within scroll in lower left corner of first plate: The first hymn sung by the charity children. Lord give the Queen thy saving health ..., Text within scroll in lower right corner of second plate: The second hymn sung by the charity children. Glory to God, who reigns on high ..., and Watermark.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, as Princess (incorrectly identified as 'Lady Jane Grey'); half-length, to front, wearing a cap, small ruff, a double collar of pearls with two long strands, and an ermine-trimmed mantle, in an oval frame, forming part of a composition designed as a sepulchral monument, with an obelisk, a celestial crown and two inscribed labels suspended from garlands, a chair of state, to right, a mourning female supporting a shield of Lady Jane Grey's arms, and to left and right, fluted pilasters and urns topped by burning hearts.--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,9.135., Text in lower left corner of image: This from an original in the possession of his Grace., Dedication below image: Inscrib'd to his most noble Grace, Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset by his Grace's most humble and most obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1748., and Numbered in upper right corner "Pl. V."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,
"Portrait, whole length; standing to front, with head turned towards right, looking to front; wearing a long wig, ermine-trimmed robes, lace cravat, breeches and stockings, and a sword hanging from a belt; holding a crown in his right hand; his left hand at his chest; on left, column wrapped in curtain bearing coat of arms with motto: 'Virtute et Fide'; on right, ornate vase in a niche; after Dahl."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text at bottom of plate: Engraved by the appointment of the Honble. Henrietta-Cavendishe-Hollis, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer., 1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 35.8 x 21.4 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of text from bottom of plate., and In paper frame: 461 x 343 mm.
Portrait, three-quarter length; standing to right, looking to front; wearing a ruff and fur-trimmed cloak over doublet decorated with flowers and leaves; holding the hilt of his sword with his left hand
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood
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Title from caption below image., Frontispiece to: Sawyer, Edmund. Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. London : T. Ward, 1725., Text under title: "Aetatis sua XLIX.", and In paper frame: 390 x 258 mm.
"Portrait of William Talbot, three-quarter-length, slightly turned to the left, seated on a chair with a mortar-board in his hand, dressed in a chimere over his rochet with the robes of the Chancellor of the Garter about his shoulder, a periwig on his head and bands at his neck, the purse of the Great Seal on a sideboard beyond, his arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved below image., State from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1858,0213.212., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 6 (formerly E) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
"View of the west front of the church, a graveyard to the right; in sky a scroll with a dedication to Browne Willis Esq; a flag flying from the top of the tower."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum online catalogue., Written on the back of the print is an autographed letter signed by George Vertue to the Hon. Thomas Symonds, at his seat at Pengethly, near Ross in Herefordshire, and dated 15 September 1744., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England),
"Portrait, half-length to left, looking to front; wearing a hat, ruff, fur-trimmed coat, doublet, and medal of the Garter on a ribbon around his neck; holding a baton in his left hand; in an oval frame decorated on top with crown and star in centre, leopard on left and ram on right, placed behind a pedestal, with coat of arms in front; illustration to Tindal's 'The continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England' (London)."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Text at bottom of image: "Obt. XIX die Apr: Ano. MDCVIII.", Plate engraved for: "The heads of the kings of England, proper for Mr. Rapin's history, translated by N. Tindal, M.A.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with possible loss of text.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
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Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and right edges., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To his Grace the most Noble Thomas Duke of Leeds, this is most humbly inscrib'd by Geo. Vertue., 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 46 x 59 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of dedication from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
"Portrait, bust slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing a doublet decorated with darts and plain collar, within an oval on a plinth, a crest at the base."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text in image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.5050., Verse in image below sitter: Shakespeare! such Thoughts inimitable shine, Drest in thy Words, thy Fancy seems Divine, 'Tis Natures Mirrour where she views each Grace, And all the various Features of her Face., and Text below verse: Done from the original now in the possession of Robert Keck of the Inner Temple Esqr.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Vertue [...] in Brownlow Street Drury Lane
"Portrait, half-length to front, with head slightly turned to look towards left; wearing a hat and fur-trimmed ecclesiastical robes; both hands resting on a cushion on a table, next to an open book on right; archbishop's hat and a book on pedestal in background on right; in a rectangular frame placed behind a pedestal, with coat of arms in front; illustration to Tindal's 'The continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England' (London); after Holbein."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name form a monogram., Plate from: The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. [London] : John and Paul Knapton, [1743-1751]., and Text below title: From an excellent original in the Arch-Bishop's palace at Lambeth painted by Hans Holben.
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
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Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé ...
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Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Text below image: Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé depictam et Authoris Icona hoc modo exhibentem., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso: Trivet.