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Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1810]
Call Number:: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:: Page 18a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Portrait of Lady Digby at age 19; bust-length, shown in three-quarter profile to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace
Description:: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Probably drawn after a miniature by Peter Oliver (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm [NMB 971 or 972]), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 18a 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):: Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby aetatis 19. [art original]

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., 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].

Creator:: Birrell, A., active 1770-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1802]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby; half length looking to left; wearing lace-trimmed dress with ribbon tied to a rosette around waist; after miniature by I. Oliver."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:: Title from lettered state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no: 1920,1211.509., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; A. Birrell sculp., Proof before letters., Publication information from imprint on lettered state: Pub. by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, Jan. 1, 1802., Lettering on later state indicates that the print was made "from a miniature by Isacc Oliver at Strawberry-Hill.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 50 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., and Contemporary annotation in pencil below image: Venitia [sic] La. Digby.
Publisher:: S. Harding
Subject (Name):: Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Lady Venetia Digby] [graphic].