A boy sits on a rock, looking to right. He rests his elbow on the rock bank behind him and holds a piece of bread in his left hand; he wears an open jacket, breeches and soft broad-brimmed hat; after a drawing by Hogarth
Description:
Title from later state with Ireland's name etched as "Sam. Ireland fecit.", Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustration, vol. i, p. 116., and Sheet trimmed to: 148 x 208 mm.
Portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby after John Hoppner. Abercromby is half-length directed slightly to right, looking away to left, right-gloved hand at his waist; he wears a military uniform with epaulettes, sash, star, and a white stock
Alternative Title:
Sir Ralph Abercrombie
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on execution of John Hoppner painting., Copy of oil painting by John Hoppner, ca. 1798., and For further information, consult library staff.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, associated name
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds that hung in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill, a group portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, shown three-quarter length and seated beside one another at small work-table, with Lady Anna Horatia at the right embroidering, Lady Charlotte Maria on the left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, center, is holding. There is a pillar to the left and behind with a curtain between and trees beyond. After Reynolds (Mannings 1810).
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 21 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):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from annotation in ink on separate oval strip of paper mounted around portrait., Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 168 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.
Portrait of Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury; three-quarter length, seated, to the left, looking to the front; gesturing towards viewer with left hand, his right hand holding a book; a curtain in background to the right; after Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Herring
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from finished state., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, p. 14., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to left of two impressions of this print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 297., and On page 148 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Various jettons and counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death. Stored in an 18th-century sharkskin-covered box. Formerly located in the Tribune [Cabinet] of Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Jettons and counters
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Various Jettons and Counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death., With Horace Walpole's 1792 circular book plate (Type 1) pasted to interior of box; later partial sale [?] label on exterior, loose mss 19th c. label “King James the First and his Family Engraved on Nine Silver Plates By Simon van De Paas from Horace Walpole's Collection,, and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Watercolor drawing showing Horace Walpole without a wig, on the left, facing the viewer, with a letter in hand; the caption under this image reads "after breakfast & in his study." In the center, Walpole with his wig and still with a letter in hand, his other arm bent and raised; the caption under this image reads "Before dinner, when drest, in the cabinet." The third image of Walpole, on the right, shows only his back, shoulders hunched and bent forward; the caption under this image reads "After dinner, & in the gallery."
Alternative Title:
Horace at three times a day
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date assigned by previous owner., and John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary.
"A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius of that Good Man and Upright Senator \ Sir George Saville Bart \ Hovers with anxiety over The Tomb; not without Hopes, that his Countrymen \ may e're it be too late, see the Necessity of Peace, - the Improbability of \ the Present Ministers making it, - & the Benefit which would result, from a Temperate Reformation of those Abuses, "from which {to use his own memorable words) \ it was notorious, that all our Calamities Sprung."!!!' Below: 'Fuimus Troes, fuet [sic] Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum. Virgil Here lie the Remains of the \ - Requisition, - \ The last Hopes of the Independent Gentlemen of Yorkshire; \ in full Confidence \ that when Corruption shall have ceased to prey upon the \ Human Frame, that it will rise again to \ - Immortal Glory.- \ Reader, \ You will no longer doubt the just Cause or upright \ Intention of this Requisition, when you learn, that \ the Merchants of Leeds, its greatest Enemies, have \ Thought that an Elegant Monument should be dedicated \ to it's \ Memory. \ "Your Cause of Sorrow must not be measured by his \ "Worth, for then it hath no End." Shakespere Mackbeth \ "Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut Modus \ "Tam chari Capitis." Horace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably commissioned by the Yorkshire Reform movement. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: sepulchral monument to George Savile, 8th Bt. -- Literature: Shakespeare's Macbeth, v.8.44 -- Literature: Virgil, Aeneid.
