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1. H. Cooke history painter [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Henry Cook (1642-1700), 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.
- Alternative Title:
- Henry Cooke history painter and Henry Cooke
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image., 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, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 118., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Cooke, Henry, 1642-1700,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > H. Cooke history painter [art original]
2. Simon Du Bois [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Simon du Bois, bust directed to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing a cloak; within oval; and within the oval portrait of another man, possibly Henry Cooke, bust directed to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing a cloak."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Simon Dubois and Cooke
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below small portrait within oval of main portrait: Cooke., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., "Vol. III, p. 118."--Upper right corner., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Mounted on page 131 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., 1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 5.8 x 4.1 cm., and Imperfect; only the small portrait of Cooke is present, the rest of the print having been trimmed away.
- Publisher:
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Subject (Name):
- Du Bois, Simon 1632-1706 and Cooke, Henry, 1642-1700
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Du Bois [graphic]
