Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
Description:
Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., 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:
Wash drawing of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written below image., 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 79 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1791]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 4 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portrait of the French Protestant Minister, Andre Lortie, shown half-length. He is wearing the clothing of a clergyman and holds open a book. The background includes a curtain and the outline of a landscape view. Unfinished portrait with only the face finished; t he body is only outlined
Description:
Inscription in ink on verso: A facsimile from the most rare original messotinto in the collection of the Honble Horatio Walpole at Strawberry Hill Nov. 3rd 1791 by Mr Harding and J:B?, Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: The head by G.P. Harding., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: French Protestant Minister in England D. 1700., and George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 110. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Ann Bransom, Horace Walpole's housekeeper at Strawberry Hill who gave tours of the house; head only, turned three-quarters left; wearing a bonnet
Alternative Title:
Ann Bransom, the woman that shows Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 110 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
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:
Half-length portrait of Ann Countess Temple as an older woman, in profile facing left wearing simple yet luxurious dress using a lace strap and neck band and ruffles for decoration
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton housed in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 62 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.
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, half length, turned left; wearing a low-cut dress and a pearl necklace with a pendant; hair completely covered
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the copy by Eccardt that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 113 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):
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
An image of two couples who appear to be dancing. The couple on the left includes a short, stocky man and a large buxom woman. The man is standing on his toes looking up to the woman while she gazes beyond his head. The couple on the right includes a lanky gentleman who is holding onto the index figure of a woman wearing a large plume in her hair
Alternative Title:
Precision & ease and Ardour and dignity ; Precision and ease
Description:
Titles written in ink below each image., William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840., and Sheet has a long crease down the center.
