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
Alternative Title:
Fari quae sentiat
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Motto on shield: Fari quae sentiat., 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 5 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):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Coats of arms, Antelopes, and Deer
No.1, opposite page 22. Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of a mounted knight in full armor facing right; his horse, a caparison over its head and hindquarters, is rearing. The banner above the design is blank
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 22 in no.1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ... Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772].
View from the west front at Strawberry Hill, from the across the road. A man in the road, leaning on the walking stick in his left hand appears to gesture with his right hand over at the turret of the villa beyond the brick wall which surrounds the villa
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Signed and dated in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow 1789."
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Houses, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A view of the west front of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill, as seen from across the road. On the left a man on horseback rides away from the viewer. In the distance a man walks away from the door in the wall around the villa. The foreground on the right is cast in shadow
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to William Pars., and One of two similar watercolors by Pars in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A light infrantryman dressed in full uniform executes a drill with his flintlock. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand is brought sharp to seize the flintlock at the top of the left shoulder keeping the body square & elbows close
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing and later published in a volme by Rowlandson. and For further information, consult library staff.
Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
Alternative Title:
Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 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 (Geographic):
Rome
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
Copy of a seventeenth-century engraved portrait of William Somner, an antiquarian scholar and author. The portait is enclosed in an oval revealing an unfinished scrollwork pattern
Alternative Title:
Mr. Somner
Description:
Title devised by curator., An unfinished copy of a 1693 engraving by Michael Burghers., On verso is another drawing: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell : aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
A female Bermudan street vendor is sitting behind her produce wares under a makeshift sun shade. She wears a white scarf over her hair and a dress dyed primarily white and midnight blue; her hands are slightly raised and outstretched towards the diverse assortment of produce
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly one of a series of small drawings of black Bermudans., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Street vendors, Produce stands, Corn, Bananas, and Squashes
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
