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1. [John Locke] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1704]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.2 Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
- Subject (Name):
- Locke, John, 1632-1704,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [John Locke] [art original].
2. [Philosophers] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1 Decr. 1804.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Subject (Name):
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727,, Locke, John, 1632-1704,, Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691,, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679,, Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742,, and Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Philosophers] [graphic]
