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, bust length, nearly in profile to the right; wearing a garment with an open collar
Alternative Title:
Melanchthon
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn after the picture by Holbein 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):
Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, bust length in an oval, wearing open shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Philippus Melanthon Germanice dictus Schwartzerd
Description:
Title from text within oval border of image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Sleidanus, J. The general history of the Reformation of the Church ... London : Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke, 1689., Biographical details etched on tablet beneath image: Natus Brettae, Anno 1497, 17 February, Augustanam Confessionem ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.2442., "Pag. 127"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 101 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:
Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke
