Volume 1, page 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes. Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled by the artist below image, in gray wash., Signed by the artist in lower right using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes, in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,
Drawing of Rolland LeFebvre (1608-1677), French born painter ; moved to England about 1676 and died in London 1677
Alternative Title:
LeFebvre
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was later used in an engraving of Le Fevre: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, 1783, v. 3, opp. p. 29., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1804]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Opposite page 1 of The muse recalled. Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems
Description:
Title from contemporary note in pencil below image, in an unidentified hand. Alternative title written in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems., Artist's name and date written in pencil beneath bottom edge of image., and Tipped in opposite page [1] of The muse recalled, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1802]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 22 Box 2
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of John Shute Barrington; half length, with head completed in detail and the rest in outline; wearing a long curled wig
Description:
Title inscribed in ink on verso., Signed by the artist in watercolor in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., Dated by the artist below signature., "Lord Barrington, fm. an original picture"--Below image, written on mount in pencil in a contemporary hand., Formerly page 65 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Barrington, John Shute Barrington, Viscount, 1678-1734
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1806?]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; head and shoulders only; facing left
Description:
Title from contemporary note in pencil in lower left corner of sheet., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears., Annotated lower right "Page 30", the location where the picture is mentioned in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill., After a picture by Jonathan Richardson, Senior, in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. "Page 30," the place in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill where that picture is mentioned, is written in pencil in lower right corner., Mounted on page 89 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.
Subject (Name):
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait, facing right; wearing a cap
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the drawing by Müntz in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 112 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.
Subject (Name):
Vaux, Thomas Vaux, Baron, 1510-1556, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title and artist name written in ink below image., Probably a copy of the original portrait or an engraving done by Giovanni Battista Catenaro. For the engraving, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2394., Date supplied by cataloger., "Ob." and "Aeta." are written in lower right corner of sheet, but the date of the portrait and the age of the sitter have not been added., and Mounted on leaf 44 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1812]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152f. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., and Mounted on page 152f in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
Description:
Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
Subject (Name):
Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
