Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., Note on verso continues: " ... she married first a Florentine, for wch. his father disenherited him, and being reduced, she maintained herself and husband by washing linnen ...", One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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):
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art, Art collections, Children, Owls, and Sculpture
"Portrait of Louise de Savoie (but falsely named Catherine of Aragon), bust directed to right, wearing a dark head-dress; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal; a cartouche below showing Catherine of Aragon in front of the papal legate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 99 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.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531,, Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of Catherine Parr; half length, facing slightly left; wearing an ornate dress; with a cross pendant around her neck and some sort of headgear covering her hair; in a circle
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn after the miniature by Holbein that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 147 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.
Subject (Name):
Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Catherine of Aragon; half length, facing slightly left; wearing a dress with a square neckline and a pendant in front; with several necklaces around her neck and some sort of headgear covering her hair
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn after the miniature by Holbein that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 149 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.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of Catherine of Braganza; three-quarter length, turned slightly left; wearing an ornate dress and holding a pair of gloves in her left hand; a curtain hangs in the background
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Probably drawn after the original portrait that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 184 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.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Braganza, Queen, consort of Charles II, King of England, 1638-1705, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the couple, half-length behind a table, holding hands; a jester on the right whispering to the Duke's ear, a curtain on the left; three coat-of-arms below the image."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, below the coats of arms., Four lines of verse in two columns etched below image, above the coats of arms: Cloth of gold do not thou dispys ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 129 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.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1794, by John Simco, Great Queen St.
Subject (Name):
Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,
Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
Description:
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
