Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1805]
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Opposite page 311. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Anne Vane, maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach and mistress to her son Frederick, Prince of Wales; bust-length, head turned slightly to the left; a stern expression on her face; wearing a low-cut gown and pearls in her hair
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from signature on a similar drawing mounted in the same volume., Date of production inferred from similar drawing in the same volume with the date "1805" written on it., and Mounted opposite page 311 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Volume 1, page 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon.", Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 37 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.
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
Profile portrait depicting the young traveller Henry Bunbury wearing an academic gown and mortar board. This drawing was used as the basis for Thomas Patch’s conversation piece of the interior of his Florentine studio painted in 1770 and now in the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bunbury, 1769
Description:
Title and date inscribed by the artist (?) in lower right., Unsigned; attributed to Thomas Patch., Inscribed below the title in a different hand: Drawn by Gezze at Florence., and From the same sheet as another drawing of "Valentino, Servitore di Piazza, 1769", now separated.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1799]
Call Number:
335 A
Collection Title:
After page viii. Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnabry Fitz-Patrick.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., With coat of arms bearing three scorpions drawn in upper left corner., and Bound in after page viii in an extra-illustrated copy of Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnabry Fitz-Patrick, the third of three works bound together in a volume with the spine title: Miscellaneous antiquities--Original letters. The first two numbers of Miscellaneous antiquities are bound at the beginning of the volume.
Drawing of Francis Place (1647-1728), English draughtsman, printmaker and potter
Description:
Title from inscription in ink in Horace Walpole's hand[?] on mount: Mr. Francis Place of York., Sheet with image mounted on separate sheet with pencil border around sheet with image., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Place in: Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p. 87., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Jan Siberechts (ca. 1627-1703), Flemish born landscape painter who settled in England in the early 1670s and established a reputation for his portraits of country houses
Alternative Title:
Mr. John Sybrecht landscape painter
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., Signed in ink, lower right: G.V., Inscription in ink, lower right: ob. 1763 Ata 73. in possess. Mr. Van Ost., Inscription in ink, lower left: N. Langillire pinx., Engraving by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting identifies artist as: N. Largiliere pinx., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Sybrecht in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 3, opp. p. 102., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Page 2. List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting page., Date supplied by cataloger, based on that of the manuscript volume in which this drawing is found., Design elements have been added to mounting page around drawing; a border has been drawn in pen and ink, and a ribbon has been drawn in watercolor above., Mounted below is an impression of the engraved larger fleuron of Strawberry Hill, used in some books published by the Strawberry Hill Press. Beneath the fleuron is written: This view of Strawberry-Hill was printed at that place., and Mounted on page 2 in a volume with the manuscript title: List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill, taken from Baker's list.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (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 of Richard Bentley; in his right hand he holds his own design of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by him for the edition of Thomas Gray's Odes (1753).
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 5885., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 71 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):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782, (Richard), 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 of Thomas Gray, who holds in his right hand a sheet of paper with writing
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 989., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 71 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 (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771, 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:
Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry; bust length, in profile to the left; hair pulled backwards on the side; wearing a flowing, low-cut dress with a button on the shoulder
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Probably after the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 194 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):
Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
