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31.
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne &c. [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1732]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
Publisher:
J. Tonson and L. Gilliver
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron, 1667-1735,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > George Granville, Lord Lansdowne &c. [graphic]

32.
Henricus IV Rex Ang. [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1732]
Call Number:
Portraits H521a no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
Knapton?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413,
Subject (Topic):
Kings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Henricus IV Rex Ang. [graphic]

33.
John Dryden [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1730]
Call Number:
Portraits D799 no. 5
Image Count:
1
Description:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Dryden [graphic]

34.
Abrahamus Cowleius Anglorum Pindarus flaccus maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui / [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1730?]
Call Number:
Portraits C875 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Title from caption below image
Alternative Title:
Abrahamvs Cowleius
Description:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Subject (Topic):
Poets and English
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Abrahamus Cowleius Anglorum Pindarus flaccus maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui / [graphic]

35.
[Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland] [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1729]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
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.
Publisher:
I. Tonson
Subject (Name):
Sunderland, Dorothy Sidney, Countess of, 1617-1684
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland] [graphic]

36.
Francis Beaumont, Esq. obt. ao. aetat circitr XXX A.D. 1615 / [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1729]
Call Number:
Portraits B379 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Francis Beaumont, Esq. obt. ao. aetat circitr XXX A.D. 1615 / [graphic]

37.
Joannes Gower Armiger Anglorum poeta celeberrimus Chauceri poeta contemporar[...] / [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1727]
Call Number:
Portraits G723 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gower, John, 1325?-1408,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Joannes Gower Armiger Anglorum poeta celeberrimus Chauceri poeta contemporar[...] / [graphic]

38.
Lancelot Blackburne, DD Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England & Metropolitan and almoner to

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1727]
Call Number:
Portraits B628 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Vertue in Brownlow Street, Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Blackburne, Lancelot, 1658-1743,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lancelot Blackburne, DD Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England & Metropolitan and almoner to his Majesty; aged 68, Dec. [the] 10 AD 1726 / [graphic]

39.
Eliza Haywood [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1725]
Call Number:
Portraits H427 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Haywood, Eliza, 1693?-1756,
Subject (Topic):
Authors, British, and Actresses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Eliza Haywood [graphic]

40.
The Right Honourable Sr. Ralph Winwood Knt Principall Secretary of State and Privy Councellour to

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1725]
Call Number:
Portraits W795 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Description:
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.
Publisher:
T. Ward
Subject (Name):
Winwood, Ralph, Sir, 1563?-1617,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honourable Sr. Ralph Winwood Knt Principall Secretary of State and Privy Councellour to his Majesty King Iames the First / [graphic]