Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Wilkie asking Lady Holland to accept his gift of "two small and imperfect sketches, made from recollection, on my way back from Falmouth, of the two Portraits by Vandyke, of the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Holland." He explains that the portraits will interest Lady Holland for "having been painted in Holland House." The letter is accompanied by the two watercolor sketches mentioned in the letter, which are signed and dated 1834
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845., Holland family., and Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Letters, Portrait painting, Watercolor painting, and Social life and customs
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gibbons, Grinling, 1648-1721 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art, Art collections, Sculpture, and Wood carvings
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 2018 238: Paperbound. Stamp: Bibl. Gvst C. Galletti Flor. and Imperfect: Folded map only. Carta dei viaggi fatti da Cristoforo Colombo per l'Oceano Atlantico ... P. Binaghi inc. per L'opera del par Amati. Ricerche Storico-Crit. 1830.
Publisher:
Coi tipi di Giovanni Pirotta
Subject (Topic):
Art, History, Printing, Science, Literature, History and criticism, and Inventions
Title etched below image., Publication information from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Copy of the first state of William Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and one, along with a satyr, lifting the shift of a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus. Enscribed on either side of Diana: "Antiquam exquirite matrem. Vir."
Description:
Title etched below image., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.) no. 120., and On page 57 in volume 1. With note in Steeven's hand above print: Copy.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 23d, 1782 Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti