Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 137. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth; half-length, turned slightly left and looking towards the viewer; wearing a shoulder-length curly wig, an open jacket, a waistcoat, and a neckerchief with frill; holding the purse of the Great Seal in his right hand
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Drawn after a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Vanloo; cf. paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 167) and at Ickworth House (NT 851778)., Date of production based on artist's death date., With placement instruction "137" written in pencil in upper left corner of sheet., and Inlaid opposite page 137 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. [Twickenham, England] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 15, after page 44. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Johan Rantzau
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the presumed late-1790s assembly date for the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Probably a copy of, or perhaps the original drawing for, a 1797 etching by G.P. Harding with the title: Johan Rantzau : Grand Mareschal de Danemarck, ob. 1565 ae. 73., and Bound in after page 44 in volume 15 of an extra-illustrated copy of James Granger's A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Drawings H928 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned., Inscription ..., Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was a British miniatures and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. In 1797, he began to lose his vision almost completely. He died in London in 1810., and No. 5 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 13 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Diana Spencer Beauclerk, seated before a green curtain, shown three-quarters length, with pink shawl draped over her shoulder; in her right hand a portfolio presumably of her drawings and in her right hand a artist's brush. To her left is a large urn set before an open window with a view of the outdoors
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Penciled note at bottom edge in unidentified hand: Lady Diana Beauclerk from Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A., and After the copy by John Powell commissioned by Horace Walpole and formerly hung in the Beauclerk closet.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence. Poems - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statements of responsibility written in pencil below image; the artist Mundare is unidentified., Copy of a portrait by Romney, which was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1778 and kept in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill. See: Kidson, A. George Romney: a complete catalogue of his paintings. New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015., Mounted below is a separate sheet (10.0 x 14.7 cm) containing eight lines of verse, in Thomas Kirgate's hand, beneath the heading: Written on the back of Lady Craven's picture, by Lord Orford., and Mounted on page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Subject (Name):
Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawings H928 no. 2 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave
Description:
Title devised by curator., Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was a British miniatures and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. In 1797, he began to lose his vision almost completely. He died in London in 1810., and No. 16 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Drawings R961 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave
Description:
Title devised by curator., John Russell (1745-1806) was a British portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in ..., and No. 232 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library. For further information, consult library staff.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Opposite page xiii. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Mary Coke, bust length, in profile to the left; wearing a plain headdress, a ruffled choker, and a low-cut gown
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Inlaid opposite page xiii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
