Title devised by cataloger., Date based other drawings signed, dated, and executed by F. James for Harrison and Co., and Profile of a man in pencil on left margin.
Copy in reverse of George Dance's 1793 pencil drawing of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, in profile looking left, half-length view. The image is foreshortened and the chair eliminated
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date based watermark.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page 17. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Edward VI, bust-length to the left; wearing a collared shirt, a fur-trimmed coat, and a feathered hat
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Placement instruction "p. 16" written in pencil in upper left corner., and Inlaid opposite page 17 in volume 1 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.
Two men fight with swords as a woman in her bed looks on in horror. Possibly the scene where Zeluco arrives in Nerina's bedroom unannounced and catches her with another lover
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed in ink lower left: F. James del. 1803., A partial wash oval on verso., and As laid in the folder: a second sheet with graphite pencil notes for the engraver? "ABCDE G R W 17056 proportion 3 x 5 scale 1/8" - 1".
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1802]
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 9
Collection Title:
Opposite page 223. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Frederic shown flinching back in surprise and horror at the sight in front of him, his arms outstretched and his legs poised for motion. A short distance to the left stands a skeleton wrapped in a hermit's cowl, its fleshless face seen in profile within a hood as it turns toward Frederic. The skeleton stands at an altar on which a cross and an open book sit; beyond the altar is a large, ornate window decorated with quatrefoils, Gothic tracery, and coats of arms. The walls behind Frederic on the right are decorated in a similar motif
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right portion of image., Additional statement of responsibility written in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: By George Perfect Harding., and Inlaid opposite page 223 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Frederic seen in the background on the left, peering around a half-open door into an oratory. In the foreground on the right is a figure, completely hidden within a hooded cloak, kneeling at an altar. An open book and a crucifix sit on the altar; light streams in from the window behind it on the right. On the back wall of the room a statue resides within a raised alcove; a chair sits below the statue, and a framed picture hangs on the wall beside it.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist attribution and date from signature "F. Miller 1802" on similar drawing bound in the same volume., and Bound in after page 222 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page 171. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of George Carew, Earl of Totnes; bust-length to the right, looking towards the viewer; wearing a ruff, a sash, and armor
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., With placement instruction "p. 170" written in pencil on verso., and Inlaid opposite page 171 in volume 1 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:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait head, in profile to the left, of Germanicus Caesar. After a intaglia portrait on cornelian kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., The name of the workman who created the intaglia, "Epitu" for Epitynchanes, is written in Greek letters to the lower left of the portrait head., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 163 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.
Subject (Name):
Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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 girl, bust-length, cradling a cat in her left arm; the girl has has short, curly hair; the cat is partially wrapped in a blanket
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a watercolor drawing by Horace Walpole, which was copied from Rosalba and hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 85 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.
