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:
Drawing of a large gold medal of King Henry VIII housed in the Library at Strawberry Hill. On the obverse is the King's head in profile surrounded by two circular rows of lettering; on the reverse is his titles in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 99 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):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Depiction of a large gold medal of Henry VIII. The obverse, with the king's titles in Latin around the edge and his head in profile at center, is shown at left. The reverse, with the king's titles listed in Hebrew and Greek and "Londini 1545" present below, is shown at right
Alternative Title:
Medal of Henry VIII
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in his extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Horace Walpole kept an example of this medal in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 88 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Blanks not digitized., Mr. Gold of the Aldine Book Co. said these were originally in the genizah of the synagogue at Urbino., and Purchased from the Aldine Book Co.; their sales-catalogue "Americana-Judaica & Hebraica" [Brooklyn, 1938?], no. 1913; in 1940.
