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 Ann Countess Temple as an older woman, in profile facing left wearing simple yet luxurious dress using a lace strap and neck band and ruffles for decoration
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton housed in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 62 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.
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 drawing, half length, turned left; wearing a low-cut dress and a pearl necklace with a pendant; hair completely covered
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 copy by Eccardt that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 113 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):
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152b. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within lower border; remainder of title written beneath border., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower right., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152b in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Anne Dudley, Countess of, 1548 or 1549-1604, and Woburn Abbey.
Portrait drawing of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle; bust length, in profile to the right; with gray hair and beard; wearing a red cassock
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with three other drawings on page 83 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 together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Volume 1, opposite page 20. Some account of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Chichele, 1437
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted opposite page 20 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London. London : Printed for R. Faulder, 1793.
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].
Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
Description:
Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
Benjamin Holbrook, shown full-length in profile, walking to the left, holding with a long white staff in his right hand, clutching two memorandum books in his left hand, heading towards Fleet Market, with the west front of St. Paul’s Cathedral visible in the background. His eyes being closed and the presence of the staff indicate his blindness, and the patched elbow of his three-quarter-length coat his poverty
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower right corner., Numbered "25" in top center., For the related print, entitled "Ben Holbrook, the walking stationer" and published 16 July 1783 by William Wells, see Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 542, no. 1., and Mounted with narrow paper mount.
Subject (Name):
Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing clerical dress and cap
Alternative Title:
Benedict XIV
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Possibly drawn from a wax model kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 58 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.
Subject (Name):
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 1, page 23. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bilson Bishop Winton and Bilson Bishop Winchester
Description:
Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 23 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.
