Volume 2, after page 84. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in ink below image, in open block letters., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., and Mounted after page 84 (leaf numbered '47' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Title derived from verse written in ink below image., Inscription in ink., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local subject terms: Corns.
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title written in ink at center margin, Artist's name in ink at lower right., Pencil notation verso, "By Robert Cruikshank not signed by him ND 1830"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152a. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the house and grounds of Woburn Abbey, around which is drawn a decorative border containing seven coats of arms and a crown at top. The house seen at a distance from across the pond, framed by trees in the foreground; a stone bridge is visible on the right
Description:
Title written in pencil at bottom of view., Signed by the artist in lower portion of decorative border, which is drawn on a separate sheet pasted to the edges of the sheet containing the view. It's possible that Harding only drew the border and not the view., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Woburn (England)
Subject (Name):
Woburn Abbey,
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, Estates, Bridges, and Coats of arms
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist at lower right., Date of production based on subject matter., Originally published in the New Yorker., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Horticulture, Victory gardens, and Physicians
Title from dealer's catalog., Date based on approximate age of the sitter and the years the artist was active in the Walpole household., and Gilt-metal mount on velvet easel stand.
A coffin is carried down the stairs of a gothic church by a procession of monks, lit by the light of the full moon and the flames of the torches that some of the monks carry. They walk toward an open crypt in the foreground. The light from the crypt illuminates the monument on the wall opposite (a knight in armor) as well as two monks kneeling at the opening of the crypt and a third monk holding a thurible. A man with a red cloak stands in the shadows on the left, looking down at the scene at the crypt. The image is intended to be backlit. The light sources in the image -- the moon, the glow shining out of the gothic crypt, and the torch-bearing friars -- are enhanced when the image is held up to a light
Description:
Title and approximate date of production from dealer's description., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn in the style of the painter and etcher Franz Joseph Manskirch (1768-1840), who worked in London between 1793 and 1819., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Mill".
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Funeral processions, Incense, Monks, Moonlight, Pointed arches, and Torches
