Page 26A. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to Hymn to adversity
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's notes beneath similar drawings in the same volume, which identify Bentley as the artist., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the tailpiece to Hymn to adversity., and Mounted on page [26A] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Title in ink center bottom., Artist's name and date in ink lower left., Sepia drawing verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from text inscribed on the depicted monument., Unsigned; artist unidentified. This is possibly the original drawing for an engraved plate issued in later editions of Hervey's Meditations among the tombs., Date of production based on publication date of the book in which the drawing is found., Beneath title is inscribed four lines of verse, followed by a description of the circumstances of Anne Stonhouse's death: She died a few days after [the] birth of her 4th child, Dec. 1st 1747 in [the] 25th year of her age., and Bound in opposite page 86 in James Hervey's copy of the first edition of his Meditations among the tombs.
Volume 2, opposite page 8. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in image; remainder of title from note in ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose annotation is present on sheet., and Bound in opposite page 8 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Volume 1, page 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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.
Page 5. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's. Trees flank the house on either side; a group of women and children stand on the path in the right foreground
Description:
Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Artist and date of production from note in ink on mounting sheet: This is the original drawing by Charles John Smith from which he engraved the plate for Murray's Johnsoniana published in 1836, p. 177., and Mounted on page 5 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and signed by the artist below image, in gray wash., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1801]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Opposite page 1 of To Lady Horatia Waldegrave ... Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image, in Thomas Kirgate's hand. The word "Poems" is added below title, at bottom of sheet., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding and date of production based on similar drawings, mounted in the same volume, that are signed "G.P.H. 1801"., and Tipped in opposite page [1] of To Lady Horatia Waldegrave ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes. Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled by the artist below image, in gray wash., Signed by the artist in lower right using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes, in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1804]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Opposite page 1 of The muse recalled. Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems
Description:
Title from contemporary note in pencil below image, in an unidentified hand. Alternative title written in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems., Artist's name and date written in pencil beneath bottom edge of image., and Tipped in opposite page [1] of The muse recalled, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
