Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Description:
Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published 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. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing clerical dress and cap
Alternative Title:
Benedict XIV
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Possibly drawn from a wax model kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 58 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 (Name):
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pitt as a peepshow man stands in front of his box while John Bull, drawn here as a simpleton, looks inside. Pitt pulls a string on the box with his right hand and with his left hand pulls a bag from John Bull's pocket. Slung over John Bull's shoulder is a trumpet with a fringed a banner decorated with the royal arms. The flag above Pitt's pagoda-like box reads: "Licensed by authority the Grand Exhibition by moving mecanism or deception of the senses."
Alternative Title:
Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd, John Bull enlightened, and Billy's rare-show
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9030., A preliminary drawing for print entitled Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd? Date of production inferred from the publication date of the etching., and Paper that has been oiled possibly to be translucent for the transfer process. Edges are tattered with old folds in the corners.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, John Bull (Symbolic character), and Peepshows
Page 121.5. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator., Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ..., and Mounted on page 121.5 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Half-length, oval portrait of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and first Headmaster of Eton, looking slightly left and wearing the mitre and robes of his office; within a decorative border and frame ending with a coat of arms. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1742
Alternative Title:
William Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Title from inscription on mount under the drawing, in the same hand: Wm. Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester., Also written on the mount under the drawing in block lettering and scored through: The Old Bishop., Portrait is unsigned, but the mount is decorated with a border in ink and wash and signed: H. Gravelot inv. et delin., Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV., Local card catalog gives unverified attribution: after Holbein?, and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Between pages 10 and 11. Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the ruins of Waltham Palace with three figures resting on the grass
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Statement of responsibility (trimmed) written in brown ink beneath lower right corner of image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted between pages 10 and 11 in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz-Patrick. Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXXII [1772].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Page 299. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme; bust-length, directed to the right; bearded; wearing a doublet; with a ruff and a medallion around his neck
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from signature on a similar drawing mounted in the same volume., Date of production inferred from similar drawing in the same volume with the date "1805" written on it., and Mounted on page 299 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Subject (Name):
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614,
Wash drawing depicting one face of a bridge spanning a stream, with a depiction of the bridge's footprint drawn below. A scale bar is present at the bottom
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Attribution to James Essex from annotation in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Design for the face of a bridge over the rivulet at Twickenham which runs by Mr. Walpole's flower-garden and crosses the road between that and Mr. Briscoe's garden. Drawn by Mr. Essex., Date of production from local catalog card., Annotated in a later hand on verso: N. the back woud. run[?] to the angle of Mr. Briscoe's pole & the front woud. look sideways towards Mr. Walpole's garden, so as to be seen from the window of the Great Bedchamber., and Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) 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 (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A satire of Pitt's return to office in 1804. Pitt is shown in the chamber of Britannia. Britannia sits listlessly on a bed, holding a sword in one hand. Next to her, leaning against the bed, is her shield and olive branches. Pitt holds aloft a bottle labelled "Constitutional Restorative" as he kicks another man, a caricature of Addington, through the door. Addington is in the process of dropping a bottle labelled "Composing Draft". With his other foot, Pitt steps on the face of a flailing and prostrate Fox, who holds a bottle labelled "Rebublican Balsam" towards Britannia. From Fox's pocket dice and a dice container labelled "Whig Pills" have fallen. Emerging from behind the bed curtains, the figure of Death, a skeleton with the face and plumed bicorne of Napoleon, overturns a table and upsets bottles of medicine and points his sword toward the unsuspecting Britannia
Description:
Title etched below image. and In paper frame: 450 x 330 mm. Stamped in upper right corner: "84."
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Politics & government
