Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, taken by Glenalvin J. Goodridge, York, Pennsylvania, circa 1850s. Image depicts an elderly white woman dressed in a satin dress, white bonnet, and fingerless lace gloves. Photograph is housed in an embossed leather case with clasps and a red velvet insert facing the image
Description:
Glenalvin J. Goodridge (1829-1867) was an African American studio photographer. He opened his studio in York, Pennsylvania in 1847 and specialized in daguerrotypes and ambrotypes., Text in English., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation from photographer's name cut into red velvet insert: "J. Goodridge, York, Pa."., and Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania, York., United States, and York
Subject (Name):
Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867.
Subject (Topic):
African American photographers, Photographers, and Women
Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke of Grafton; in the middle the Duchess of Grafton; at the bottom, Voltaire
Description:
Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist., The silhouette of the Duchess of Grafton with a child in a cradle to her left, annotated in Horace Walpole's hand: "Anne Duchess of Grafton cut at Geneva by Monsieur Hubert [sic] 1762"., Possibly the silhouette sent to Walpole 1772 Nov. 15. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, volume 5, pages 439., and Four works matted together: Jean Huber's Découpage with three silhouettes; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage in the manner of Monsieur Huber; Collage of Walpoliana; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage with women, children, and dancers.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 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.
Title devised by curator., In ink lower margin: Docr. Gall drawn by T. Rowlandson and given to his old friend Smith., Date of production based on artist's death date., Place of production based on artist's nationality., Ownership stamp in red ink, lower left: LSD., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Drawing of six figures identified in pencil by former owner
Description:
Titles supplied by cataloger., Formerly attributed to George Vertue. See Christie's sale catalog., Originally drawn by John Rous. Horace Walpole had the drawings traced and then engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
