Interior of a cave, the body of Christ being lowered on a sheet by three men and a woman. St. Mary Magdalene kneels and kisses his feet at left, the Virgin supported by a holy woman at center
Description:
Title devised by curator., After a painting by Raphael., Questionable date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Mat: 27" and "Mar: 15" etched below image in lower right., Mounted on page 155 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 P ress (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Contemporary manuscript annotation in lower margin: Raphael p.
To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, this plate is humbly inscribed by Her Royal Highness's much obliged and most obedient humble servant, Robt. Strange
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger based on title of original painting., Three lines of Latin verse below image: Ausa & jacentem visere regiam vultu sereno fortis, & asperas tractare serpentes-- Hor., Dedication etched in lower margin: To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales this plate is humbly inscribed by ... Robt. Strange., Text below dedication: From the original painting of Guido Rheni in [the] collection of Her Royal Highness the P.D. of Wales., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold by the author next door to Parliament Street Coffee-house, Westminster, London, according to Act of Parliamt
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
A collection of original art removed from an album: silhouettes, pressed flowers, a valentine, and drawing. The silhouettes include one of a woman in an academic gown and cap mounted on Art-Union of London ticket for entrance to an event at Theatre Royal, Lyceum on 25 April 1854; two views of the same man(?) identified as "James Evans" (on verso: Professor Rees) one with highlighting in gold. The pressed flowers are a small sheet with leaves or petals of a pink hue. The valentine is small drawing of bright flowers with a motto "Toujours unies par l'amitié" with a gold border. Also included is an amateur watercolor of a "Peasant boy" in a smock, standing on a grassy mound
Alternative Title:
Britannia
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Artist and creation place and date from another item with the collection, which is cataloged separately, a comic map: England / Carnarvon College. March 30th 1872. J. Hughes.
Title from lettered state in the British Museum., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.964., and Plate XXXIV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2.
Volume 2, page 9. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's signature etched backwards in lower right portion of image., Mounted on page 9 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing by Ostade in Ind. ink in possion. of J.T.
"Italianate landscape with a town on a hill-top to left, wooded cliffs falling to a river below, where three figures are passing in a boat, one dragging a hand through the water, with three men talking in the foreground, one lying on ruins of classical masonry, one gesturing to left towards a woman who walks over a bridge in the foreground, with a man sitting at the side of the road below trees in the right foreground, watching a dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Engraved from a picture after Mr. Wooton
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Text below image: Engraved from a picture after Mr. Wooton [sic], 2 feet 10 inch wide, 2 feet 2 inch high., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 797); seated almost whole-length to left, looking to front, holding a snuff-box in his left hand at his lap and his right hand resting on papers on a table at left, curtain behind and landscape through window at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, imprint, printmaker, and artist from published, lettered state in the British Museum: "Painted by Sir Thos. Lawrence R.A. Principal Painter in Ordinary to his Majesty. Engraved by C. Turner, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. London, Published July 4, 1815 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square." See British Museum registration no.: 1891,0414.420. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait of the dramatist Sir William Killigrew; three-quarter length, standing, to the right, right hand under robe; with shoulder length hair, moustache, and short pointed beard; a column and tree in background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Sir William Killigrew
Description:
Title from later state., Proof before title; for a later state with title and additional lettering below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1908,0810.6., Publication information from imprint on later state: Published Decr. 1, 1796, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall., Proof state of a plate for: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Engraved after a copy of the painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Little Library of the Cottage at Strawberry Hill, which Horace Walpole believed to be a portrait of John Milton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Mounted on page 201 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., and Annotated in pencil with the title "John Milton" below image and with the name "Mr. Bawtree" in lower right corner.
