Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL PORTRAITS.
THIS SERIES OF PORTRAITS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY, is engraved
from highly-finished Drawings of ORIGINAL PICTURES, existing in
various Galleries and Family Collections throughout the country, made
with scrupulous accuracy by Mr. G.P. Harding; the greater portion
never having been previously engraved.
M.M. HOLLOWAY, having purchased the whole of the impressions and
plates, now offers the Sets in a Folio Volume, bound in cloth, and
including Biographical Letter-press to each subject, at the greatly
reduced price of £2 12s. 6d., and £4 4s. 0d. for Proofs before
Letters, of which but 18 copies remain.
The Collection consists of the following Portraits:
KING HENRY VIII. and the EMPEROR CHARLES V., from the Original,
formerly in the Strawberry Hill Gallery.
QUEEN KATHARINE OF ARRAGON, from a Miniature by Holbein, in the
possession of the Duke of Buccleugh.
SIR ANTHONY BROWNE, K.G., from the Original in the possession of
Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A.
ANTHONY BROWNE, VISCOUNT MONTAGUE, K.G., from the Collection of the
Marquess of Exeter.
EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD, from the Original Picture in the
Collection of the Duke of Portland.
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, BARON THORNHAUGH, LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND, from
the Original Picture in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford.
WILLIAM CAMDEN, CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMS, from the Picture in the
possession of the Earl of Clarendon.
SIR ANTHONY SHIRLEY, AMBASSADOR FROM THE COURT OF PERSIA TO JAMES I.,
from the Original Miniature by Peter Oliver.
HENRY CAREY, LORD FALKLAND, LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND, from the Original
by Vansomer, formerly in the Strawberry Hill Collection.
SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, SON OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, from an Original
Miniature by N. Hilliard, in the possession of Lord De l'Isle and
Dudley.
THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LENTHALL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, from
a Miniature by J. Cooper, in the possession of R.S. Holford, Esq.
MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE, from the Original Picture in
the Collection of F. Vernon Wentworth, Esq.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, M.D., of NORWICH, from an Original Picture in the
College of Physicians, London.
SIR CHARLES SCARBOROUGH, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO CHARLES II., JAMES II.,
and WILLIAM III., from the Original Picture in the Barber-Surgeons'
Hall.
FLORA MACDONALD, from the Original by A. Ramsay, 1749, in the Picture
Gallery, Oxford.
M.M. Holloway, 25. Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
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CHRONOLOGICAL CHART of BRITISH ARCHITECTURE, with the Genealogy and
Armorial Bearings of the Sovereigns of England, and parallel Tables
of the most important events in British and General History; with an
Explanatory Volume. By Archibald Barrington. Price, Four sheets, in
wrapper, 15s. In French case, or on roller, 21s. Roller, varnished,
26s. Volume of Plain Hints, 4s. in addition.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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