Volume 1, page 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 39. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Lake Bishop Bath Wells
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Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 39 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
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Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
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Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon.", Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 37 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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Title from contemporary manuscript annotation in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date based on that of the printed work for which this design was made., Original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to v.1 of: Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales sex regum Angliae. Oxonii [Oxford] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719-1722., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
Volume 1, page 29. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Samuel Daniel
Description:
Title from inscription in pencil above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Below title is written "pub. 1609"; in lower right corner is written "gravd. by TCockson[?] sculp.", Likely drawn after the engraved portrait by Thomas Cockson on the title page to: Daniel, S. The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke. Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 29 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Half-length, oval portrait of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor, classical scholar, philospher, later canonized, looking slightly right and wearing the Collar of Esses, with the Tudor rose badge of Henry VIII; within a decorative border with an elaborately decorated flag, spectre and axe below. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1741
Alternative Title:
Sir Thomas More
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Portrait is unsigned, but the mount is decorated with a border in ink and wash and signed: H. Gravelot inv. et delin., Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV., After Hans Holbein the Younger, and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
