Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as an older man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his gray hair; dressed in a gold fur-trimmed jacket, embroidered, over a scarlet shirt
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 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):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: Worm holes in the beginning and at end. Bound in old wooden boards, rebacked; clasps wanting. Penciled notes on fly-leaf: Lord Orford's copy; Bought in Venice from the Duplicates in St. Marks Library from the Contarini Collection, O. [i.e. Orford?]. Bookplate of Thomas Day Seymour. The last word on BB₁a and the last words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. With capital M. at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig. nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 2: 31 cm. Numerous manuscript marginal and interlinear notes by a contemporary hand. Stained in the beginning and at end. Brown morocco binding, gilt, inside dentelles, gilt edges. Penciled note on fly-leaf: Je l'ai acheté chez Muller, Amst[erda]m ... Anvers 18 [name of month illegible] 1872. Ant. Van Bellingen. The last word on BB₁a and the last three words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. From the Ionides Collection., BEIN ZI +5551 Copy 2: Without capital M at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 3: 31 cm. With copious annotations in Greek by Martin Crusius (1526-1607). Without capital M at the beginning of the last line on leaf 100b., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume., SML Microtext Room: Negative film available for reproduction., Fol. 280b blank., Capital spaces, mostly with guide-letters., and Hain omits comma on f. 1a, line 2.
Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'W. Hogarth Engraver'. In an oval cartouche in the lower frame, "Aprill [the] 23 1720."
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image., Date engraved in cartouche centered in lower frame., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Center is cut out and ms. inscription added “W: Hogarth Engraver” on mount below showing through., and On page 3 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
