A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 62d. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of Henry VIII's Turkish dagger of steel damasked with gold that was owned by Horace Walpole and housed in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The handle is only outlined, but the guard is drawn in detail, with the outlines of inset gemstones. With a descriptive note (trimmed) in pencil beside it indicating "eighteen rubies [...] the handle". The ornamentation of the dagger is further described in a pencil annotation "127 rubies, 6 diamonds" in the lower right corner of the sheet
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 62d in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 8 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink below image, in George Perfect Hardning's hand. and One of a group of watercolors after works in the Strawberry Hill collection executed by Harding.
Subject (Name):
Rochester, Henry Wilmot, Earl of, 1612?-1658, 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:
Bust-length portrait of Horace Walpole, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides; with border
Description:
Title written in ink below image, within border., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 3 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.
A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
Description:
Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
Portrait drawing of John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett, as a boy; three-quarters length, shoulders turned right and head turned left; with long hair; wearing a red shirt with white collar
Alternative Title:
John 2nd Earl of Powlett and John Second Earl of Powlett
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., Formerly page 75 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as a younger man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his wavy hair; dressed in a scarlet fur-trimmed jacket over a gold shirt; holding a red rose in his right hand
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as an older man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his gray hair; dressed in a gold fur-trimmed jacket, embroidered, over a scarlet shirt
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 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 (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1806]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 27 Box 3
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of a woman; three-quarters length, turned slightly left, her left hand resting on a book; wearing a formal white dress with a small blue bow; hair worn up with pearls; additional books on shelves in the background
Description:
Title from pencil annotation on verso, the end of which is trimmed away; "Lady Irvin" also inscribed in ink on page in album where drawing was probably once mounted., Questionable attribution to G.P. Harding from local card catalog record., 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., Formerly laid in at page 77 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.
