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.
"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
Description:
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
Description:
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
Description:
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
Description:
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., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text 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
Description:
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
Description:
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
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.
Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé ...
Description:
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.
