Portrait after Beechey of Sir William Staines, Lord Mayor for the City of London in 1801; head and shoulders to left wearing mayoral robes but without chains over a waistcoat, with frilled cravat and short wig, curled at sides
Description:
Title from item. and Date based on the print on which this drawing is based, cut from an unidentified publication, between 1801-1817? See British Museum Registration number: K,68.145.
Recto image: Thee trilithons of Stonehenge and other smaller sarsen stones. Verso image: Sketch of a stone cottage or house with details of the windows and doorway
Description:
Inscription in pencil upper right: Looking NE from the inside., Inscription in pencil lower left: Stonehenge, July 15, 1844, J. Flower., Inscription in pencil lower center: The colour of the stone is grey with dark parts. They're green lichen and white lichen., Inscription in pencil on verso: From my cupboard large folio, this end., Inscription in pencil on verso: The central "doorway" is the one through which passed the Axis., John Flower, English painter and drafsman, 1795-1861., For further information, consult library staff., and One of two drawings in a folder.
Title written in unknown contemporary 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., Notation on verso: "No. D"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title written in unknown 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., [East] written next to title in unknown contemporary hand., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title written in unknown 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., Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title written in unknown hand at bottom of sheet, below image., Numbered on verso, in pencil: "No. 7"., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Unknown artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Opposite page 296. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk; half-length, turned slightly right; with her hair down and her left hand touching it beside her cheek; wearing a low-cut gown
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from signature on a similar drawing mounted in the same volume., Date of production inferred from similar drawing in the same volume with the date "1805" written on it., Probably drawn after the portrait by Jervas that was owned by Horace Walpole and kept at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted opposite page 296 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait drawing of Jane Duchess of Gordon; half length, head turned to the left; wearing a dress with a high, open collar; hair up; with a pearl choker and a loose pendant necklace around neck
Alternative Title:
Duchess of Gordon
Description:
Title inscribed on mount below image, in ink in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Mounted with three other drawings on what was formerly page 89 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title written in pencil by unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, below image., Inscribed in pencil on verso: "No. M"., Inscribed in pencil on verso: "A print of this is added by Bedford to his copy of the Description 1784, p. 82. It is marked, "Drawn engraved + published May 4, 1798, by W. Bawtree" ... See SH accounts, opp. p. 128.", From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
