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1. Add MS 23068-23074

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COMMON-PLACE books of G. Vertue containing observations upon art, biographical notices of artists, descriptions of pictures, sculpture, medals, etc., in public and private collections, extracts from books, and miscellaneous memoranda, with a few rough sketches; 1713-1754. Seven volumes. Autograph, except Vol. I., which is a transcript of the original, Add. MS. 21,111, with corrections by the author.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1713-1754
Extent:
7 items

2. Add MS 23075

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NOTES for the lives of English and foreign painters, by G. Vertue; 1720-1721. Partly autograph. At f. 33 are proposals for the regulation of the Academy of Painting; Dec. 1720; and at f. 74 is a short treatise, entitled "For the Improvement of the Art of Delineing in this nation." Paper. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1720-1721
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 23076

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MEMORANDA relating to contemporary English painters, sculptors, engravers, etc., as well as to foreign artists resident in England, by G. Vertue; Sept. 1722-Jan. 1738/9. At the end, reversing the volume, are an "Alphabet of Heads engraved before Nov. 1723," f. 57 b; a fuller "Alphabet of Heads,"...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1722-[Jan 1739]
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 23077

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NOTES relating to English coins and coinage, partly original and partly extracted from printed works and MSS., by G. Vertue; 1739-1751. Autograph. Paper. Folio. Numismatics: Notes relating to English coins, by G. Vertue: 1739-1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1739-1751
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 23078

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CHRONOLOGICAL catalogue of English and foreign engravers, with lists of their works and critical notes, by G. Vertue. Autograph; with indexes by the author and Horace Walpole. Paper; circa 1730-1750. Folio. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford 1791: Index to G. Vertue's Catalogue of Engravers: c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1750
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 23079

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"MEMORIALS of persons, arts, and artists," consisting chiefly of criticisms on paintings, engravings, and crayon drawings, and biographical notes and anecdotes, by G. Vertue; 1739-1748. Autograph. Paper. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1739-1748
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 23080

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"THE USE of the Pensill in the most excellent art of Limning in Water Colours." Printed, but with considerable variations, as the second part of "Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil, or the most excellent art of Painting. By William Sanderson, Esq." (London, 1658. Folio.) With notes by G. Ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 23081

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MISCELLANEOUS notes, extracts, catalogues of pictures, etc., by G. Vertue; 1722-1735. Mostly autograph. Included are: 1. Notices of Dutch painters, translated from Carel van Mander's "Schilder-boeck," f. 8. 2. Notes relating to Richard Symonds, of Black Notley, co. Essex; and of his observatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1722-1735
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 23082

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"REMARKS on painters," etc., by G. Vertue; circa 1751. Autograph. Included are 1. Observations upon the art of engraving, and the foundation of a professorship of drawing at the Universities, ff. 7, 46. 2. Notes on the lives of Dutch painters, translated from Arnold Houbraken's "Groote Schoubu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1751
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 23083

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NOTES for the history of engraving in England, by G. Vertue; 1751. At f. 37 are also translated extracts from Jacob Campo Weyermann's "De Levens-beschrijvingen der Nederlandsche Kunstschilders en Kunstschilderessen." Paper. Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 item