Portrait of Sir Anthony Denny; bust-length, turned slightly left; wearing a cap and a chain
Alternative Title:
Sir Anthony Denny
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Engraved after a portrait by Hans Holbein. The original picture, set in a roundel, was formerly part of the Arundel collection; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.1669., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 105 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.
Drawing of the exterior of the Great Cloyster (ground floor) and Gallery (first floor) that form part of the southern facade of Strawberry Hill. Two rows of arched windows are depicted, and a doorway is present in the lower right. At top is seen a castellated roofline with evenly-spaced spires. Measurements are written in various places to provide scale
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 103 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)
Page 22A. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's note in pencil below image: First sketch, by Bentley., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the tailpiece to A long story., Written above in brown ink are nine lines of text, including the final two stanzas of the poem A long story., and Tipped in as page [22A] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on variant state: J.S. Müller sculpt., After a painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved. According to the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, "This plate was engraved for the Poems, 1753, but destroyed by Gray's desire.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., For a variant state bearing printmaker's signature, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 376., Mounted on page 66 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., and Sitter's name "Mr. Thomas Gray" written in brown ink at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Plate showing two helmets, one engraved above the other. The helmet at top, numbered "1" above, is a Venetian Morion shown in profile, with the figure of Acteon visible at its center immediately under the crest. The helmet at bottom, numbered "2" above, is of the burgonet kind
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Imperfect; only the helmet engraved at top of plate is present, with the rest of the sheet trimmed away. Description based on more perfect impression., "Pl. 3.", Plate from: Grose, F. A treatise on ancient armour and weapons. London : Printed for S. Hooper, 1785 [1786]., Mounted on page 72 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., and Note in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page: V. Appendix, page 96.
Title from note on verso in Thomas Kirgate's hand, partially trimmed., Signed in image with the initials "S.H." [i.e. Sylvester Harding]., Date based on known visit by Harding to Strawberry Hill. See Walpole's Book of visitors., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Sylvester Harding (1745-1809), English, miniature painter, draughtsman, and print publisher., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
