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.
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)
Title from caption below image. and Mounted on page 7.
Publisher:
Richard Bentley & Son
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Choiseul-Daillecourt, Maxime de, 1782 or 1783-1854,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Probably representing one of the "pair of beautiful old carved solid ebony chairs, of the Elizabethan period, pierced backs, richly decorated with birds, flowers and figures, twisted rails, the frames finely carved in scrolls, and cane sear"--1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, day 17, lot 54.
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Text above image: "Date the beginning of the 17th century."
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2, 1834 by Wm. Pickering, Chancery Lane
Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany.", 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):
Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany.", 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):
Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562 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.
