Francis Cleyn senior pictor [art original] / G. Vertue del.

Creator:

Vertue, George, 1684-1756

Published/Created:

[England]
[between 1720 and 1756?]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : gray ink and wash with corrections in brown ink on laid paper ; image 13 x 10.5 cm, on sheet 25 x 17.5 cm

Related Links:

Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3664

Notes:

Title from item.
Signed in ink, lower right under image: G. Vertue del.
Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right: from an orig in Poses. Mr. Crawley at Hampsted, Hartforsh. An other orig. drawn in Poses. Mr. Rosse.
Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: H. Famossmo Pittore Francesco Clein Miracolo dell Secolo. I molto esti mato dell. R. Carlo della grande Britagna. 1646.
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 2, p. 127.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.

Abstract:

Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein.

Topics:

Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658
Walpole, Horace, 1727-1797

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Artists -- German -- Portraits
Graphite drawings -- British -- 18th century
Ink drawings -- British -- 18th century

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Folio 49 3664.4

Orbis Record:

8082344

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr19066

Citation:

George Vertue, Francis Cleyn Senior Pictor. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034604

PID:

digcoll:2814241