Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 42a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of two small Welsh armchairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The support posts of the chair are painted with alternating blue and white bands; the triangular seat has a cushion of blue-gray point lace. Centered within the backrest are the yellow and black arms of Mr. Richard Bateman
Alternative Title:
Welsh armed chair
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., 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 42a 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].
"View of an open loggia, and above the royal arms and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of David Loudon's Bun House at Chelsea
Description:
Title etched below image., "Hogarth's name appears on some impressions of this print and the style is similar to his work, but the print does not appear in any of Hogarth's own catalogues. It is likely that the name was added to the plate at a later date to enhance sales."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2420., Date of publication from description of presumed earlier state lacking Hogarth's name; see British Museum online catalogue., With a scale of measurement at bottom of plate and the text "52 by 21 feet" following title., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Buildings, Loggias, Coats of arms, and Soldiers
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803. and Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Physiognomy, Heads (Anatomy)., Hearses, Coats of arms, and Obelisks
"Caricature with George IV as an auctioneer selling his royal crown with cuckold's horns to a group of ladies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.18., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns with cuckhold's horns -- Royal arms -- Furniture -- Auctioneer -- Costume: male, female, 1820 -- Coronets -- Cuckold's horns., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 34.2 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 72 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1820" written in ink in lower right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Crowns, Horns (Anatomy), Coats of arms, Auctions, Auctioneers, Women, and Sofas
"Caricature with George IV as an auctioneer selling his royal crown with cuckold's horns to a group of ladies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.18., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns with cuckhold's horns -- Royal arms -- Furniture -- Auctioneer -- Costume: male, female, 1820 -- Coronets -- Cuckold's horns., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Crowns, Horns (Anatomy), Coats of arms, Auctions, Auctioneers, Women, and Sofas
Title from caption below image., Text following title: There goes a flower of a youth!!, Plate from: Almack's: a novel., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.3 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 25.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 8 of 12.
"A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'. Below the title: 'These Armes are to be altered by the Desire of the Committee, a Wolf in Fleecy Hosiery is to be substituted for the Lamb and the Supporters are to be taken away - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arms for the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., One plate [tail-piece] to Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
