View of the clock with a detail of the engraved inscription from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn: HA 'The most happye'.
Alternative Title:
Clock presented by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Description:
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]., The watercolor drawing is pasted in the lower right corner of the larger sheet of the print, beneath the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 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 Elizabeth Hamilton, Comtesse de Gramont; half length, turned slightly left; in a low-cut, flower-patterned dress; with pendant earrings and pearls in the ribbon tying back her hair
Alternative Title:
Comtesse de Gramont
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably drawn from the picture, copied by Eccardt after Lely, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 181 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):
Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 56b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Diagram showing the arrangement of items hung inside Horace Walpole's Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels, which was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Most of the nearly ninety objects are small paintings, which are shown in outline only. In these cases the name of the portrait's sitter or a description of the image is written in the blank space at center, while the shape and ornamentation of the surrounding frame is depicted in some detail. Other objects include locks of hair, hearts made of hair, rings of agate, and decorative heart pendants; each of these items has a label written below. Two small areas on the right and left sides of drawing, both delineated by a vertical line and labeled "side" above, show objects that were hung on the interior sides of the cabinet
Description:
Title written in watercolor at top of sheet, centered., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date based on artist's death date., and Inlaid on page 56b 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):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Miniatures (Paintings), and Cabinets (Case furniture)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 106. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Charles Manners-Sutton, three-quarter length, turned slightly to the left; holding his academic cap and the Coronation Service; dressed in a chimere over his rochet with a gold-laced cope about his shoulders, bands at his neck and a powdered bob-wig on his head
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., Drawn after the painting, attributed to John Hoppner, at Lambeth Palace (Accession no.: 16)., and Mounted on page 106 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Name):
Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828, and Lambeth Palace (London, England)
Drawing depicting a speculum of kennel-coal, in a leather case, that was supposedly used by Dr. Dee the conjurer to deceive the mob in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Title written in ink below image on mounting page., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Depicted object was formerly owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. For a description of the object, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1966,1001.1., Mounted on page 215 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Dee, John, 1527-1608. 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 2 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Burnet in the robes of prelate of the garter, after the portrait by Mrs. Rose
Description:
Title inscribed below portrait between the two ruled frames; subtitle inscribed below ruled frame. and Conjectural date based on other dated drawings of paintings in the Strawberry Hill collection executed by Harding and now held in the British Museum.
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from caption below image. and Mounted on page 7.
Publisher:
Richard Bentley & Son
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Choiseul-Daillecourt, Maxime de, 1782 or 1783-1854,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Probably representing one of the "pair of beautiful old carved solid ebony chairs, of the Elizabethan period, pierced backs, richly decorated with birds, flowers and figures, twisted rails, the frames finely carved in scrolls, and cane sear"--1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, day 17, lot 54.
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Text above image: "Date the beginning of the 17th century."
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2, 1834 by Wm. Pickering, Chancery Lane
Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany.", 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):
Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
