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.
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,"...
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.
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...
"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.
"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...
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...