Artist's trial proof of a steel engraving with corrections of the head and further alterations drawn in pencil and pen and ink directly over the steel engraving. The engraving shows a man wearing a karakul and smoking a hookah
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Corrective notes inscribed in graphite pencil next to drawing: The eyes brighter darker the brow[?] a different shape., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, opposite page 130. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, half-length, facing the viewer but turning slightly right, in an oval with square frame; her hair is in curls and she wears pearls around her neck and wrist and she holds a paintbrush in her right hand
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Bound in opposite page 130 in volume 2 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 4a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of the chairs, designed in a Gothic style by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole, that were in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 4b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image., Artist name from dealer's description., Study (or copy) for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland. Not reversed., and John Nixon (ca. 1750 - 1818), city merchant and amateur watercolourist (topography) and designer and maker of satirical prints; honorary exhibitor in RA between 1781 and 1815.
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1802 and 1853?]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 2 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, drawn in an oval, of Johannes Meeke. He is wearing 17th century dress with a cap. He is holding a book in his right hand
Description:
Title from artist's inscription below image., George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853., Inscription in pencil on verso: By [?G.P. Harding]., and Inscription in pencil on verso: Benefactor of Magdalen College.
Head and shoulders of Isaac D'Israeli, in profile to the right, with features exaggerated. Notes by the artist scribbled above and below image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Annotation (signature?) in lower right in pencil: Gillray delin., Date based on publication date of the print entitled "Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks! ...", which includes a similar but reversed depiction of D'Israeli in profile. Cf. No. 9923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., James Gillray, English caricaturist, 1756-1815., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
Page 25. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the monument in St. Mary's Church, with the bust of the Countess of Ailesbury sitting on a pedestal at center, head shrouded. Columns supporting an ornate roof flank the bust on either side, the area between their bases decorated with a pattern of quatrefoils. A winged cherub head hangs from the bottom of each column. A scale bar runs along the bottom of the sheet
Alternative Title:
Monument of the Countess of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent
Description:
Title written in ink at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on watermark: A. Blackwell & G. Jones 1802., and Mounted on page 25 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the servant Bianca shown descending a staircase while looking over her right shoulder, a worried expression on her face. Her gaze is directed at the top of the stairs, where a large hand in armor is seen resting on the banister near the landing of the floor above. The arched opening to the landing is flanked on either side with a display of armor and weapons mounted on the wall. Several arched windows and doorways are seen in the shadowy background
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Bound in opposite page 217 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
