"Portrait of Louise de Savoie (but falsely named Catherine of Aragon), bust directed to right, wearing a dark head-dress; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal; a cartouche below showing Catherine of Aragon in front of the papal legate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 99 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:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531,, Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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 of Catherine Parr; half length, facing slightly left; wearing an ornate dress; with a cross pendant around her neck and some sort of headgear covering her hair; in a circle
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 miniature by Holbein that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 147 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):
Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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 of Catherine of Aragon; half length, facing slightly left; wearing a dress with a square neckline and a pendant in front; with several necklaces around her neck and some sort of headgear covering her hair
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
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 miniature by Holbein that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 149 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):
Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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 of Catherine of Braganza; three-quarter length, turned slightly left; wearing an ornate dress and holding a pair of gloves in her left hand; a curtain hangs in the background
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Probably drawn after the original portrait that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 184 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):
Catherine, of Braganza, Queen, consort of Charles II, King of England, 1638-1705, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
Description:
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
View of the clock with a detail of the engraved inscription from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn: HA 'The most happye'.
Alternative Title:
Clock presented by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Description:
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., The watercolor drawing is pasted in the lower right corner of the larger sheet of the print, beneath the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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 of Elizabeth Hamilton, Comtesse de Gramont; half length, turned slightly left; in a low-cut, flower-patterned dress; with pendant earrings and pearls in the ribbon tying back her hair
Alternative Title:
Comtesse de Gramont
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn from the picture, copied by Eccardt after Lely, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 181 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):
Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 56b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Diagram showing the arrangement of items hung inside Horace Walpole's Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels, which was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Most of the nearly ninety objects are small paintings, which are shown in outline only. In these cases the name of the portrait's sitter or a description of the image is written in the blank space at center, while the shape and ornamentation of the surrounding frame is depicted in some detail. Other objects include locks of hair, hearts made of hair, rings of agate, and decorative heart pendants; each of these items has a label written below. Two small areas on the right and left sides of drawing, both delineated by a vertical line and labeled "side" above, show objects that were hung on the interior sides of the cabinet
Description:
Title written in watercolor at top of sheet, centered., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date based on artist's death date., and Inlaid on page 56b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Miniatures (Paintings), and Cabinets (Case furniture)
Drawing depicting a speculum of kennel-coal, in a leather case, that was supposedly used by Dr. Dee the conjurer to deceive the mob in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Title written in ink below image on mounting page., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Depicted object was formerly owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. For a description of the object, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1966,1001.1., Mounted on page 215 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.
Subject (Name):
Dee, John, 1527-1608. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
