Volume 1, page 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Bulla of Pope Boniface IX
Description:
Title from ink inscription below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 77 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.
Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Description:
Title from ink inscription at top of image., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., With a scale in feet drawn to the right of image. Also with the note "x this part pulld. down by the late Lord -", referring to an "x" marked on the top portion of the depicted structure., and Mounted on page 71 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Tottenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Towers
Page 73. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
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1
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still image
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Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 73 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Volume 5, after page 344. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
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still image
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A bird's-eye view of Eton College, as seen from across the Thames
Alternative Title:
View of Eton College
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attribution to Bernard Lens from note in pencil on verso: Eton. Drawing by B. Lens - from H. Walpole's collection, bot. at Strawberry Hill Sale. [signed] Gibbs., Date of production based on artist's death date., "From Strawberry Hill collection"--Note in pencil below image, in lower left corner of sheet., and Mounted after page 344 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 5 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 5, after page 344. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
A bird's-eye view of Eton College, as seen from across the Thames
Alternative Title:
View of Eton College
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attribution to Bernard Lens from note in pencil on verso: Eton. Drawing by B. Lens - from H. Walpole's collection, bot. at Strawberry Hill Sale. [signed] Gibbs., Date of production based on artist's death date., "From Strawberry Hill collection"--Note in pencil below image, in lower left corner of sheet., and Mounted after page 344 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 5 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 4, after page 282. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
Windsor Castle, sitting atop its terraced hill, as viewed from across the Thames
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attributed to Bernard Lens by curator. A similar drawing, titled "A view of Eaton College" in the same hand, is mounted in volume 5 of the same extra-illustrated set and has a previous owner's note on the verso identifying Lens as the artist., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted after page 282 (leaf numbered '65' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger. and Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
A scene in a bedroom, the bed in a niche behind a curtain, one man sits as he is being shaved by his servant, as a companion stands with his arms crossed. To their left is an open trunk wotj slippers and boots on the ground on the far left. A fourth man stands apart arrange his queue(?), two pistols on the floor to his right beside an open duffle bag. On the right wall hangs a portrait of Emperor Joseph above a large fireplace; on the left wall hangs a portrait of a woman in profile
Alternative Title:
Shanks Leggs servant shaving him
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower margin, in the artist's hand., Date from dealer's description., Two additional ink inscriptions by the artist, to the left ("J. Nixon") and right ("G. Nixon") of the title, identify figures depicted in the scene., and Window mounted on to a slightly larger sheet.
Subject (Name):
Nixon, John, -1818,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Shaving, Servants, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Fireplaces
Title and statement of responsibility written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 138b in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Titled by the artist below image, in gray wash., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Tipped in opposite page [1] of Bishop Bonner's ghost, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
