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
A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Rumsford [Coxheath]. She is followed by her husband who is dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces which were frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
Description:
Title from text inscribed in contemporary hand on verso., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching after this drawing., The signpost depicted in the drawing reads 'Rumford' while the Bretherton etching changes the text to 'Coxheath', and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, Militias, and Dogs
Drawing of Daniel Mytens (ca. 1590-1674), painter born in Delft in the northern Netherlands. He moved to London in the mid-1610s where his patrons included many members of the royal court and later King James I and Charles I. He returned to The Hague in 1630 where he worked as an art dealer
Alternative Title:
Daniel Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis
Description:
Title from item., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Mytens 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. 7. Artist indentified as: Ant. van Dyck pinxt., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
A design drawing for a seat in a garden with three Gothic arches and a banner at the base showing the location of a tree
Alternative Title:
Design of a Gothic seat for Mrs. Cavendish at Thistleworth by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount. Harris notes that the house for which this drawing was done is not known., Added title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing: Design of a Gothic seat for Mrs. Cavendish at Thistleworth by Mr. Bentley., Signed in lower corner of banner with Bentley's monogram: RB., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 35 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
An elevation drawing of the entrance end of John Chute's estate, The Vyne, drawn before 25 August 1757 as referenced in a letter from Horace Walpole to Bentley. Another drawing, also not executed, was mounted below on the same leaf: Another side for the antichapel at the Vine [sic]. On the verso of this drawing is a small pencil sketch of a clock tower
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) for the antichapel at the Vyne in Hampshire, Design for an antichapel at Mr. Chute's at the Vine [sic] in Hampshire by Rich. Bentley 1750, and Design for an antichapel at Mr. Chute's at the Vyne in Hampshire by Rich. Bentley 1750
Description:
Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mount., Added title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing: Another side for the antichapel at the Vyne., See Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montague 25 August 1757 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 9, p. 216)., and Formerly mounted at the bottom of leaf 34 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
