Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 6 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink below image, in artist's hand. and Peter Oliver portrait is after a portrait by Van Dyck. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 2, p. 43.
Subject (Name):
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
An engraved portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby after the painting by Anthony Van Dyck, a bust of Digby in a lace collar, looking left, in an oval frame with ornaments below
Alternative Title:
Sir Kenelm Digby
Description:
Title engraved in image., Text below image: From an original picture in [the] Royal Palace of Kensington., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate to: Birch, T. Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, MDCCLII [1752]., Mounted on page 47 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., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 37.2 x 23.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
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
Plate [181] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Newton, Lock, Boyle, Digby, Hobbes, Halley and Barrow in clouds surrounding globe over which female allegorical figure hovers with candle in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [181] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall