"Portrait of Margaret Lemon, half length to right, holding flowers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marguerite Lemon angloise
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication inferred from publisher's known city of residence in 1646. Hendrick van der Borcht the Younger accompanied the collections of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, to Antwerp when they were moved there in 1642-4, and continued working for Lady Arundel until her death in 1654; see British Museum online catalogue., Below title are eight lines of verse in two columns, signed "R.G. Sr. D.L.": Flore, Thisbe! Lucresse & Porcie & Cypris ..., Engraved below verses: Omnia vincit amor & nos Cedamus amori. Virgil., Watermark upper center of sheet., and Written in ink along right plate line, top: 155. Lower left corner of plate mark: 74. On verso, lower left: 141[?]
"Portrait of Margaret Lemon, half length to right, holding flowers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marguerite Lemon angloise
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication inferred from publisher's known city of residence in 1646. Hendrick van der Borcht the Younger accompanied the collections of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, to Antwerp when they were moved there in 1642-4, and continued working for Lady Arundel until her death in 1654; see British Museum online catalogue., Below title are eight lines of verse in two columns, signed "R.G. Sr. D.L.": Flore, Thisbe! Lucresse & Porcie & Cypris ..., Engraved below verses: Omnia vincit amor & nos Cedamus amori. Virgil., 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 25.6 x 17.8 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 211 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Portrait of Ortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin; head and shoulders, full face, turned slightly to right; in an oval
Description:
Title engraved below image., Place of publication inferred from printmaker's known country of activity. According to the British Museum online catalogue, Verkolje "in 1672 settled in Delft, joining the artists' guild in 1673 [and was] several times dean of the guild during 1678-1688. ... He seems never to have come to England, but some of his prints dated 1680-4 are lettered in English and were intended for the London market.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted in wash-line mount to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in before page 205 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699,
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; half length to the left; with high lace band and ropes of pearls; in oval frame on pedestal decorated with peacock feathers; after Miereveldt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved within circular tablet on pediment beneath portrait., Plate from: Larrey, Isaac de. Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande. Rotterdam : Reinier Leers, [1697-1713]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 27.1 x 18 cm; window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 214 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
"Portrait, whole length; standing to front, with head turned towards right, looking to front; wearing a long wig, ermine-trimmed robes, lace cravat, breeches and stockings, and a sword hanging from a belt; holding a crown in his right hand; his left hand at his chest; on left, column wrapped in curtain bearing coat of arms with motto: 'Virtute et Fide'; on right, ornate vase in a niche; after Dahl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text at bottom of plate: Engraved by the appointment of the Honble. Henrietta-Cavendishe-Hollis, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer., 1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 35.8 x 21.4 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of text from bottom of plate., and In paper frame: 461 x 343 mm.
"Portrait, whole length; standing to front, with head turned towards right, looking to front; wearing a long wig, ermine-trimmed robes, lace cravat, breeches and stockings, and a sword hanging from a belt; holding a crown in his right hand; his left hand at his chest; on left, column wrapped in curtain bearing coat of arms with motto: 'Virtute et Fide'; on right, ornate vase in a niche; after Dahl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text at bottom of plate: Engraved by the appointment of the Honble. Henrietta-Cavendishe-Hollis, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer., Window mounted to 45 x 31 cm., and Bound in after page 208 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, wearing sash and star of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval with laurel branches beyond; a crown and collar of the Order of the Garter below; published state; after Arthur Pond.''--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Plate to: Birch's Illustrious heads., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to: 478 x 319 mm.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and right edges., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To his Grace the most Noble Thomas Duke of Leeds, this is most humbly inscrib'd by Geo. Vertue., 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 46 x 59 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of dedication from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
George Vertue
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and right edges., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To his Grace the most Noble Thomas Duke of Leeds, this is most humbly inscrib'd by Geo. Vertue., and Bound in before page 201 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
Portraits W218 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
SH Contents R462 no. 10+ Impression 1 Box 200
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On the back of the picture which hung in his bedroom, Walpole copied a passage in Latin from de Thou's autobiography.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 8 (formerly G) 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 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 35.9 x 25.7 cm.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 3 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 35.7 x 25.5 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; with Horace Walpole's bookplate (bookplate 5, type 1), printed on red paper, pasted in lower left corner of image., and For further information, consult library staff.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
SH Contents R462 no. 10 Impression 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 38
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : mezzotint ; 31.8 x 25.4 cm., and No. 19 in Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1808); half-length in profile to left, wearing star and sash with short wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 108 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1715-1763, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Head and shoulders in an oval wearing a flowered coat with lace frill; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., After a painting by John Astley; see: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states, State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Approximate date of publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint and their listed street address. William Wynne Ryland operated from his Kings Arms address in Cornhill around 1765-1766, and began his partnership with Henry Bryer in 1765; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 45 x 31 cm., and Bound in after page 214 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, engravers at the Kings Arms, in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794,
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Formerly laid inside front cover of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Mounted opposite first half-title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.1 x 14.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves; after Richardson after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title in scratched letters below image., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, statements of responsibility, and publication line re-etched, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.308., Engraved after a copy by Richardson, as indicated by the text "from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane" on published state of the plate. The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Year of publication from imprint statement on published state: Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on page 144 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Note in pencil beside image, on mounting sheet: This is a copy, the original has sold for 12 guineas; she is wrong plac'd here., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st by J. Thane
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
