Subject (Name): Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665, / Subject (Topic): Art

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Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1741]
Call Number:: 49 2359
Image Count:: 26
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates.
Subject (Geographic):: England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):: Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].