"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.
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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.
