Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 81. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea; half-length to the left, with head in three-quarter profile to the left; wearing a long wig and a coat fastened by the top button
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Heneage Earl of Winchilsea
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist in ink in lower left portion of image using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., "From a scarce print by Virtue [sic]"--Pencil annotation at bottom of sheet., Date of production based on artist's death date., With placement instruction "p. 81" written in pencil below image in lower right., and Inlaid opposite page 81 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. [Twickenham, England] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1806]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 16 Copy 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page 245. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford; half-length, turned to the left but facing forward; wearing a coat with a fur collar, a star on the left breast
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist., After a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds., and Bound in opposite page 245 in volume 1 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. Strawberry Hill, Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1787. From: Horace Walpole's Works. Strawberry Hill, 1770-1787, pages 245-564.
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794,
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing of a castle, with two figures in the left foreground and a low wall extending towards the viewer in the right foreground; a cloud-filled sky completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably copied from the wash drawing by Willey Reveley of the real-life Castle of Otranto; that drawing was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 227 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.
Page 14. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Floor plan of the chancel in St. Mary's Church, Sundridge, Kent, with the footprint of the altar at the top and nearest to the right the footprint of a tomb labeled "Lady Ayesbury" with measurements; in front on the right a footprint also with measurements is labeled "Vacant grave", but in a different and later hand updated with the information "now The Honble. Anne S. Damer, May 28, 1828, aet. 80". To the left of the altar an annotation reads "At this spot are the graves of Lord and Lady Frederick Campbell".
Description:
Title written in ink above image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Anne Seymour Damer, who possibly assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., and Mounted on page 14 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Geographic):
Kent (England)
Subject (Name):
Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803. and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828.
Wash drawing depicting the chapel of the Gunnersbury House, Middlesex. John Webb (1611-1672) was the architect, and the property was owned by Princess Amelia, the third daughter of King George II from 1762 until 1786. A view from the front of the building that features six columns spaced around three tall archway doors. Pasted on a mount with three other views of the Gunnersbury House property and possibly mislabeled since another drawing labeled 'pavillion' possesses a more distinct chapel appearance
Description:
Title from caption inscribed by artist below image., Date from local card catalog record., On same sheet: Gunnersbury house -- Pavillion in the garden at Gunnersbury -- Pavillion in the gardens at Gunnersbury., and For further information, consult library staff.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 5 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a cottage with an old woman asleep in a chair, her feet resting on a low footstool in front of open door (left); in her lap she holds an open book and a pair of spectacles. On the right, a boy in a smock stands on a stool in front of an open cupboard eating from a full bowl. Along the back wall is a pair of casement windows with a drop leaf table below and pictures on the wall to the left. A cat walks across the center of the scene looking up at the boy
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Watermark on paper: J. Rump 1825., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Cupboards, Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Sleeping, and Women
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1839?]
Call Number:
SH Views H263 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill great cloister
Description:
Titled in ink in artist's hand, below image., Initialed "GPH" in the bottom left corner of image., and Date based on the submission of his "The Library at Strawberry Hill, Seat of the Earl of Waldegrave" to the Royal Academy in 1839.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Art collections, Estates, and Cloisters
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach carried by a woman in a mop cap and wearing spectacles who stands full lengh (left) holding a long handled frying pan heaped high with dark ashes. He says, "Come, come, Dame is'nt my eggs and bacon done yet. I'm literally famish'd in waiting." She replies, "I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done 'em so nice all this here soot fell into the pan."
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Title written in unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, below image., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Written on the verso, in an unknown contemporary hand: "Surely also by Barrow." Underneath, added in another hand: "Surely not by Barrow.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
