A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
Title from caption below image., Date supplied by curator., Schleuen may also be the printmaker., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
I.D. Schleuen exc. Berolin
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Orphanages, Children, Buildings, and Churches
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Julian Hospital (Wurzburg).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Germany.
Subject (Name):
Julius Echter, von Mespelbrunn, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, 1545-1617. and Würzburger Juliusspital.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Buildings, Gardens, Putti, and Portraits
Title etched within image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In pen upper right: 48., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
View of the exterior of the Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, London; Ionic pillasters across front with central pediment above, coat of arms in center of pediment; wrought iron fence at street level, with gates and lamp posts in front of the two visible doors
Description:
Titled in watercolor beneath image., Unsigned; artist identified., Approximate date supplied by cataloger, based on the 1849 date of the latest printed item inserted as an extra-illustration alongside this drawing., and Bound in after page 356 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"View of the Great Court of Somerset House, on the Strand; a large statue in centre of courtyard with surrounding ballustrade; a group of elegantly dressed figures give money to a beggar in foreground, other small groups of figures in space."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 73., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 86., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st June 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Titles etched below images., Date from item., Place of publication derived from language of text and subject., Sheet trimmed., In top margin: London ; Plate VII.e., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Published as the Act directs
Title etched below each image., From: Walter Harrison, A new and universal history, description and survey of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and their adjacent parts, London: J. Cooke, 1775., In top margin: Engraved for Harrison's History of London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
John Cooke
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital. and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).