Richard III [art original] / Vertue delin.

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1822]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pen and ink on wove paper ; image 14.2 x 8.5 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 11.6 cm

Notes:

Artist unidentified; done after a drawing by George Vertue that was owned by Horace Walpole and kept at Strawberry Hill.
Date of production based on publication date of the extra-illustrated volume into which this drawing was inserted.
Gift of Mrs. Henry Sage to W.S. Lewis, October 1946.
Tipped in opposite page 109 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third. London : W. and S. Wybrow [etc.], 1822.
Title written in ink below image.

Abstract:

Portrait drawing of Richard III, three-quarter length, turned slightly right; wearing a crown and robe; holding a sword in his right hand and the globus cruciger in his left hand. Copied from a full-length double portrait drawing of Richard III and Queen Anne.

Topics:

Kings--Great Britain.

Topics:

Richard--III,--King of England,--1452-1485--Portraits.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Ink drawings--British--19th century.
Portraits.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

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

Source Title:

Historic doubts, on the life and reign of King Richard the Third.

Call Number:

24 17 795 Copy 2

Orbis Record:

13710006

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr36714

Citation:

Richard III. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16704406

PID:

digcoll:4679391