Portrait of Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616), Dutch painter, draftsman, poet, and sculptor, born in Gouda in the Netherlands, moved to London in 1573 where he painted portraits until his return to the Netherlands in 1581
Alternative Title:
Cornelis Ketel painter
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 137., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Cornelis Poelenburgh (1594 or 1595-1667), Dutch painter and draughtsman, one of the first generation of Dutch italianates. He worked in the Court of Charles 1.
Alternative Title:
Cornelis Poelenburgh and Cornelius Polenburg
Description:
Title in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand: Corn. Poelenburgh pictor., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756., Engraved portrait by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting in England entitled "Cornelius Polenburg" and identifies the work as a self portrait by the artist: ipse pinxit., and Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Poelenburgh in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 103.
Drawing of Cormelius Johnson (1593-1661), English born painter. During the English Civil War, moved to Netherlands in late 1643; believed to have died in Utrecht in 1661
Alternative Title:
Cornelius Janson
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Johnson in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 4., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
A servant (butcher?) with his hands on his hips looks suspicously at a fashionably dressed man as the latter crosses one arm in front of his chest completing an apologetic bow and uses the other to secretly slide a package behind his back to a thrid unidentified individual penciled in outline. The inscribed caption reads: Permit me good sir to solicit your countenance. You be damned!
Description:
Title penciled in below image. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Bribes, Servants, Dandies, and British
Inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand on verso (not visible): "Cottage at Strawberry Hill, by J.C. Barrow.", Note in pencil in a later hand: "Bedford's copy of the Description, has (no. 36) aquatint from this as one of the "Views added"; he says in his list there that it was an aquatint by Barrow, engr. Parkyns. (Slight difference in his print: figs. in front + none under tree, but unmistakably this is the drawing for it).", Numbered on verso, in pencil: "No. H"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Jospeh Charles Barrow, English artist, active 1789-1802., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Watercolor drawing of the cottage on the grounds of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham. The side of the cottage containing a large window faces the viewer, with the entrance and its portico facing left; a man, holding a cane in his right hand and carrying a folio volume under his left arm, walks away from the entrance. A watering can, a sickle, a wheelbarrow, and a rake are in the foreground; trees surround the cottage and are also visible in the background
Alternative Title:
Cottage, drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date written in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title, statement of responsibility, and date written by Horace Walpole below image on mounting page: The cottage, drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791., and Mounted on page 202 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
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 drawing of Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury; half length to left; wearing hair loose and fabric draped over right shoulder; in oval
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a painting by Sir Peter Lely., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 63 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):
Shrewsbury, Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot, Countess of, 1642-1702,
Title from text inscribed in graphite pencil above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
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 drawing of Abraham Cowley; bust length, facing left; with long hair and an open shirt collar; in a circle
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn after the miniature by Zincke, which in turn was painted after Sir Peter Lely's portrait, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 147 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):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
