Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 2 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Burnet in the robes of prelate of the garter, after the portrait by Mrs. Rose
Description:
Title inscribed below portrait between the two ruled frames; subtitle inscribed below ruled frame. and Conjectural date based on other dated drawings of paintings in the Strawberry Hill collection executed by Harding and now held in the British Museum.
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pencil drawing of General John Burgoyne, British army officer, dramatist, and politician. Burgoyne is facing right framed by an oval decorated with a wreath design
Alternative Title:
General Burgoyne
Description:
Title from graphite pencil inscription in plaque design in image. and For further information, consult library staff.
Quarter-length portrait of Henry Seymour Conway after Gainsborough, framed by oval design. Conway is in uniform, turned to the left with head facing and looking to the right
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image., Date from unverified data from local record., Copy of painting by Thomas Gainsborough., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait of Owen Glendower, the fourteenth-century Welsh ruler. Glendower is depicted quarter-length, wearing a helmet and a full suit of plate mail armor emblazoned with a hearaldic symbol of a single lion, rampant and langued
Alternative Title:
Owain Glyndŵr.
Description:
Title from pencil caption below image., Unidentified artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Page 638. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Thomas Dodd
Description:
Title and artist's initials written in pencil below image., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, in which this drawing is found as an illustration., and Drawn in the lower left margin of page 638 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Volume 4, after page 286. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., On verso is an engraved portrait of Charles I by Wenceslaus Hollar, of which this drawing is a stylized tracing in reverse. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,2.53., and Mounted after page 286 (leaf numbered '102' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 4, after page 286. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., On verso is an engraved portrait of Charles I by Wenceslaus Hollar, of which this drawing is a stylized tracing in reverse. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,2.53., and Mounted after page 286 (leaf numbered '102' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
An amateur drawing of Hubert Walter, Bishop of Salisbury and Abbot of Canterbury; a bust showing the subject in profile, with a description pencilled in below: "Hubert Walter Bp. of Salisbury & Ab. of Canterbury. The gallant crusader under Rich. I. He died 1218, from his mon. at Canterbury."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Sheet from a notebook, with perforations from the sewing along the right edge.
Full-length portait depicting Moses Kean imitating actor John Henderson in the grave scene in Hamlet. A picture on the wall behind Moses contains a likeness of the original scene with Henderson in the same character and attitude. Kean is directed right, head facing left wearing a tricorn hat; he has a wooden leg and arms outstrected to right hold a handkerchief
Alternative Title:
Moses Kean as Hamlet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Printed clipping pasted to mount and dated 'Nov. 4 [18]26' in contemporary ms. hand: The late Moses Kean was a tailor, a stout-built man, with black bushy hair, and a wooden leg ... He was a very extraordinary mimic, particularly in imitation of C.J. Fox, which he gave occassionally at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. Mr. Edmund Kean, the celebrated actor, owes his education to the above person, wo was his uncle. -Nollekens and his Times., Copy of an 18th century etching titled Mr. Kean's imitation of Henderson's Hamlet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Moses, -1792,, Henderson, John, 1747-1785, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Portrait drawings, Actors, Imitation, Peg legs, and Handkerchiefs
