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Open filters- Title:
- A model of Senate House
- Object name(s):
- sculpture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Senate House, which houses the central administration and library of the University of London, was built between 1932 and 1937. Its architecture aroused strong feelings both of admiration and detestation.
- Dimension:
- 89 x 94 cm (base)
- Material:
- model
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- sculpture
- Object number:
- SC-0001
- Object production person:
- John B Thorp
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 19th/20th cent.
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/89eac0ea-db7f-3012-9437-3f29ab40c3db
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/89eac0ea-db7f-3012-9437-3f29ab40c3db, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- A model of the proposed Senate House auditorium
- Object name(s):
- sculpture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- in glazed case
- Dimension:
- 98 x 94 cm (base)
- Material:
- model
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- sculpture
- Object number:
- SC-0002
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4536f42e-9c84-3a50-8aa2-c28221b806f9
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4536f42e-9c84-3a50-8aa2-c28221b806f9, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Senate House, interior with steps (cloister)
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- initialled and dated lower left. Framed.
- Dimension:
- 75 x 62 cm
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0142
- Object production date:
- 1984
- Object production person:
- 20th century school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1900-2000
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/431df5e2-0172-37c7-9c0a-882c603fb7b6
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/431df5e2-0172-37c7-9c0a-882c603fb7b6, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Christopher Sly and the Hostess
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Christopher Sly is a drunken beggar and tinker in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The pictures complements the strong Shakespearean book holdings at Senate House Library. Framed.
- Dimension:
- 44 x 32 cm
- Material:
- oil on panel
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0080
- Object production date:
- 1830 (ca)
- Object production person:
- Liverseege, Henry
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1803-1832
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ec750af6-0a98-36a7-9e70-230e7ed8da61
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ec750af6-0a98-36a7-9e70-230e7ed8da61, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Abraham Cowley
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- First and other early editions of Cowley's (1618-1667) work are to be found in Senate House Library.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford; Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0121
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6524d776-c01f-3d79-a6f8-8342ac3caa84
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6524d776-c01f-3d79-a6f8-8342ac3caa84, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Joseph Addison
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). See Senate House Library for editions of Addison's work from the eighteenth century onwards.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by students at Courtauld Institute, ca 2014 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0128
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2bfa9b2b-5f54-3fd1-a3b3-c958fd25f5ea
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2bfa9b2b-5f54-3fd1-a3b3-c958fd25f5ea, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Sir John Denham
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- See Senate House Library for eighteenth-century editions of Denham's (1615-1669) work.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford; Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0130
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- English school, 18th century
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8651351a-16f2-3c13-b344-d40798490685
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8651351a-16f2-3c13-b344-d40798490685, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Canal Boat 'Waldo'
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Signed lower left. Framed and glazed.
- Dimension:
- 34 x 27 cm
- Material:
- watercolour
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- commissioned by Senate House Library 2007 in memory of Janet Bragger, a member of staff who died in office. Paid for by former colleagues.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PW-0073
- Object production date:
- 21st cent. (2007?)
- Object production person:
- Allan, Garth
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1935-2017
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/62e4bd8e-7fa9-383d-9d2b-1c383b04a2c9
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/62e4bd8e-7fa9-383d-9d2b-1c383b04a2c9, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Picture of a seated woman
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Senate House in background.
- Dimension:
- 122 x 91 cm
- Material:
- oil
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0224
- Object production date:
- 1980s or later
- Object production person:
- De Jonge, Eccy
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1964-
- Person's gender:
- F
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6c6cf5ba-4c3f-3644-818f-a9102318bd5c
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6c6cf5ba-4c3f-3644-818f-a9102318bd5c, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Ben Jonson
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This portrait of dramatist and poet Ben Jonson (1572/3-1637) complements Jonson's first folio (1616), in a copy with three early ownership inscriptions, and other works in Senate House Library. Portrait after Abraham van Blijenberch (1575/6-1624; Flemish)
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0107
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/40420c83-d7a2-3f7b-a12f-384eae545064
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/40420c83-d7a2-3f7b-a12f-384eae545064, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Samuel Butler
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- After Gerard Soest (ca 1600-1681; fl. England). Various seventeenth- and eighteenth-century editions of Samuel Butler's (1613-1680) work can be found in Senate House Library.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0120
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9bd14430-1cf2-379f-aa4f-ab31547ad53f
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9bd14430-1cf2-379f-aa4f-ab31547ad53f, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). See Senate House Library for editions of Rowe's (1674-1718) work from the eighteenth century onwards, most famously his trailblazing edition of Shakespeare's plays (1709).
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford (probably); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0129
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d4b22ec5-2cdd-382f-b7bc-ba9dde24d7f7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d4b22ec5-2cdd-382f-b7bc-ba9dde24d7f7, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Portrait of Francis Wormald
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- The palaeographer Prof. Francis Wormald, CBE (1904-1972) was the Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, 1950-1968, and Director of the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, 1960-1968. He also taught at the Warburg Institute, and wrote prolifically. Together with the University Librarian, J.H.P. Pafford, he established the palaeography room at Senate House Library. His papers are held at Senate House Library (MS809), as are some manuscripts he had owned. Signed at foot, to left of centre.
- Material:
- drawing
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Lent by David Ganz, KCL
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PD-0235
- Object production date:
- 20th cent.
- Object production person:
- Wormald, Honoria
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1899 (ca)-1991
- Person's gender:
- F
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a5276fac-91f7-30e7-af2f-82d5fc4156a1
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a5276fac-91f7-30e7-af2f-82d5fc4156a1, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Map of London showing University colleges
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Unfinished. Signed and dated to lower right. Framed. The artist was the younger brother of Eric Gill (1882-1940), whose typography and illustration are present in several private press books in Senate House Library.
- Dimension:
- 231 x 313 cm
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0143
- Object production date:
- 1939
- Object production person:
- Gill, Leslie MacDonald
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1884-1947
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/72f22356-0f06-3297-9ebc-8ba0f23e71c3
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/72f22356-0f06-3297-9ebc-8ba0f23e71c3, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- William Wycherley
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- William Wycherley (1641-1715) was a Restoration dramatist; see various editions of his works and criticial discussion of them in Senate House Library.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0123
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- Murray, Thomas (att.)
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1663-1734
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- Scottish
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9f99a218-9561-3844-af74-6b60e5559bbf
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9f99a218-9561-3844-af74-6b60e5559bbf, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- John Dryden
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This portrait complements a number of first editions of poems and plays by John Dryden (1631-1700), as well as the Essex House Press edition of Alexander's Feast (1904), printed on vellum, in Senate House Library. Portrait after John Riley (1646-1691; English)
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0122
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2605e4b0-3eb8-36b7-88d5-668a33b90efa
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2605e4b0-3eb8-36b7-88d5-668a33b90efa, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Edmund Waller
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Inscribed 'John Milton' to lower left. After Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661, English). In addition to this portrait, Senate House Library owns a copy of Giovanni Borelli's Euclides restitutus (1658) owned and signed by Waller.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0108
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ba5a4399-bef8-31d4-9f67-ed541a936512
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ba5a4399-bef8-31d4-9f67-ed541a936512, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Edmund Spenser
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This picture of poet Edmund Spenser (ca 1522-1599) complements first editions and sumptuous private press editions of his work in Senate House Library, given, like the portrait, by Sir Louis Sterling.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford; Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0106
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9feb9d02-048e-330e-83a3-aca8d1d15a28
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9feb9d02-048e-330e-83a3-aca8d1d15a28, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- William Cartwright
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This painting is complemented by two copies of Cartwright's Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems (1651) in Senate House Library, one of which shows signs of seventeenth-century ownership.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0109
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/50c5afa9-022b-3bbb-8a8e-60d74328c81d
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/50c5afa9-022b-3bbb-8a8e-60d74328c81d, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Matthew Prior
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Portrait of poet and diplomat Matthew Prior (164-1721) probably commissioned by Lord Chesterfield; after Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745, English). Prior's work held in Senate House Library includes the first editions of Prior's first and second collections of Poems on Several Occasions (1707, 1717).
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0125
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4667b748-2c67-3869-b589-3cf95c9e4ab7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4667b748-2c67-3869-b589-3cf95c9e4ab7, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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