SDK Collection 1999

Royal portraits

[2] Image (medium); or Image (detail)
Artist:
Subject: King Alfred the Great
Iconography: from [1]
Engraved: Michael Burghers
Published: [O. Walker], Ælfredi Magni Anglorum Regis Invictissimi Vita Tribus Libris Comprehensa a Clarissimo Dno Johanne Spelman (Oxford, 1678), pl. I
Reproduced: <TCC photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 264-5
Collections: SDK (book)

[0] Image (bw50)
Artist: [?William Sunman (d. 1708)]
Subject: King Alfred the Great, bearded and crowned, half-length, in robe trimmed with ermine, holding a sceptre in his right hand
Iconography: cf. engravings in Walker's edition of Spelman's 'Life of Alfred' [2]
Date: c. 1670, or later, as one of the group of Founders' pictures commissioned by the University of Oxford for the Picture Gallery in the Bodleian Library, and set up there in 1670
Location: Picture Gallery, Bodleian Library, Oxford, throughout the eighteenth century; now lost
Published (mezzotint): J. Faber, Founders of Colleges in Oxford and Cambridge (London, 1712-14), with title naming Arthur Charlett as Master of University College, Oxford; later re-issued by H. Parker, with title naming Nathan Wetherell as Master of University College, Oxford
Published (in colour): R. Ackermann, A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vols. (London, 1814) I, opp. p. 25
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 262-3
Collections: SDK (Faber's Founders; Ackermann)

[0] Image
Artist:
Subject: King Alfred the Great
Iconography: 'E MS. in Bibl. Bodl.', being a development of a faint sketch in the original manuscript of John Spelman's 'Life of Alfred'
Engraved: Michael Burghers
Published: T. Hearne, The Life of Ælfred the Great, by Sir John Spelman Kt (Oxford, 1709), frontispiece
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 268-9, with 268 n. 198
Collections: SDK (book)

[0] Image
Artist: George Vertue (1684-1756)
Subject: King Alfred the Great
Iconography: derived from the engraving of [1], with the addition of symbolic accessories
Engraved:
Published: F. Wise, Annales Rerum Gestarum Ælfredi Magni, Auctore Asserio Menevensi (Oxford, 1722), frontispiece
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 261-2 and 271-2
Collections: SDK (book)

[0] Image
Artist: George Vertue
Subject: King Ecgberht
Engraved: George Vertue
Published: P. Rapin de Thoyras [trans. N. Tindal], The History of England, 2nd ed. [in folio], 2 vols. (London, 1732-3), added for subscribers; G. Vertue, The Heads of the Kings of England Proper for Mr Rapin's History, Translated by N. Tindal, M.A. (London, 1736)
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 291-2
Collections: SDK

[0] Image
Artist: George Vertue
Subject: King Alfred the Great
Engraved: George Vertue
Published: P. Rapin de Thoyras [trans. N. Tindal], The History of England, 2nd ed. [in folio], 2 vols. (London, 1732-3), added for subscribers; G. Vertue, The Heads of the Kings of England Proper for Mr Rapin's History, Translated by N. Tindal, M.A. (London, 1736)
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. VIIIb <TCC photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 291-2
Collections: SDK

[0] Image
Artist: George Vertue
Subject: King Cnut
Engraved: George Vertue
Published: P. Rapin de Thoyras [trans. N. Tindal], The History of England, 2nd ed. [in folio], 2 vols. (London, 1732-3), added for subscribers; G. Vertue, The Heads of the Kings of England Proper for Mr Rapin's History, Translated by N. Tindal, M.A. (London, 1736)
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 291-2
Collections: SDK

[00]
Artist: Samuel Wale
Subject: King Alfred and allegorical figures of the Arts and Sciences and, seen through arches, the kitchen, chapel, andRadcliffe Quadrangle of University College
Date: 1753
Collections: SDK, ex Sandars of Oxford
Comment:

English History Delineated (1750-2)

[00]
Artist: Nicholas Blakey
Title: The Landing of Julius Caesar, An: ant: Chr: 55 Rom: 699
Collections: SDK (1751), ex Sanders of Oxford, xi.99 <20>

[00]
Artist: Francis Hayman
Title: The Druids; or, the Conversion of the Britons to Christianity
Collections: SDK (1751), ex Grosvenor Prints (18.xii.99) <100>, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 94

[00] Image
Artist: Nicholas Blakey
Title: 'Vortigren [sic] and Rowena; or the Settlement of the Saxons in England' (c. 1750)
Subject/Source:
Engraved: G. Scotin
Published: John and Paul Knapton, with Robert Dodsley, as part of 'English History Delineated' (1750-2), no. 4; reduced version in Smollett, Complete History of England, 2nd ed. (London, 1758), opp. p. 125; reworked and republished by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, dated 12 Oct. 1778
Collections: BM, P&D, 1866-4-7-170; SDK (1751), ex Grosvenor Prints (23.ix.99) <130>
Reproduced: Clayton, The English Print, p. 97
Others: [Vortigern and Rowena 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

[00] Image
Artist: Nicholas Blakey, with Francis Vivares
Title: 'Alfred in the Isle of Athelney, receiving news of a victory over the Danes' (c. 1750)
Subject/Source: cf. ASC, s.a. 878
Engraved: G. Scotin
Published: John and Paul Knapton, with Robert Dodsley, as part of 'English History Delineated' (1750-2), no. 5; reworked and republished by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, dated 12 Oct. 1778
Collections: BM, P&D, 1877-6-9-1707 (1751); 1953-11-7-4, with title in English and French; 1855-6-9-1829 (1788); SDK (1751), ex Grosvenor Prints (24.iii.98) <130>; [folded and trimmed] at Grosvenor Prints <85>, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. IXa <TCC photograph SDK>

[00] Image
Artist: Francis Hayman
Title: 'The Norman Conquest, or the Battle of Hastings' (c. 1750)
Subject/Source:
Engraved: Charles Grignion
Published: John and Paul Knapton, with Robert Dodsley, as part of 'English History Delineated' (1750-2), no. 6; reduced version in Smollett, Complete History of England, 2nd ed. (London, 1758), opp. p. 371; reworked and republished by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, dated 12 Oct. 1778
Collections: British Museum, P&D: 1855-6-9-1827; SDK (1751), ex Grosvenor Prints (18.xii.99) <110>, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: Allen, Francis Hayman, p. 148

Boydell, et al.

[00] Image (engraving 50%) (100, 25, 10)
Artist: Robert Edge Pine (1730-88)
Title: 'Canute the Great reproving his courtiers for their impious flattery' (1763)
Subject/Source: Cnut and the incoming tide, ultimately from Henry of Huntingdon
Exhibited: Society of Arts/Free Society 1763 (159), awarded First Premium (100 gns); Society of Artists 1768 (89)
Location: untraced
Engraved: Francois German Aliamet, 1766 (16 x 21)
Published: John Boydell, 1772 (23 x 20)
Collections: BM, P&D, 1899-7-13-69 (no text or date) [kept with British XVIII Etchings, under Aliamet]; SDK (Aliamet/Boydell), ex Grosvenor Prints (18.xii.99) <110>, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: cf. Sunderland, 'Political Aspects of English History Painting', fig. 48 (from an early copy);<BM photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 297-8

[00] Image
Artist: Benjamin West, RA (1738-1820)
Title: 'Alfred the Great dividing his loaf with a pilgrim'
Date: 1778
Subject/Source:
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1779 (341)
Location: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspapers Makers
Engraved: W. Sharp, after a copy by Josiah Boydell (in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Published: John Boydell, 1782
Collections: <>; SDK (ex RHK)
Reproduced (painting): von Erffa and Staley, Paintings of Benjamin West, no. 48; Strong (1978), p. 116 (fig. 132)
Reproduced (engraving): The Painted Word, ed. Cannon-Brookes, p. 65 (no. 32); Clayton, The English Print, p. 237
Comment: The Painted Word, ed. Cannon-Brookes, p. 65 (no. 32); Keynes (1999), pp. 301 and 313

[00] Image (engraving 50%))
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Edward II the Martyr and Elfrida'
Subject/Source: murder of King Edward the Martyr in 978
Engraved: Bartolozzi
Published: James Birchall, 1786 <TC: Birchall sale, 2nd day, Lot 47, with 'Prince Edmund and Algitha', and original drawings, 4th Day, Lot 20>
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Sanders of Oxford 27.x.98 <250>; another in Skrebowski (xii.99, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 33) <50>
Reproduced: <TCC photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 000

[00] Image (engraving 50%))
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Prince Edmund, surnam'd Ironside and Algitha'
Subject/Source: ultimately from ASC, s.a. 1015
Engraved: Bartolozzi
Published: James Birchall, 1786; see [00]
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Sanders of Oxford 27.x.98 <250>
Reproduced: <TCC photograph SDK>

[00] Image
Artist: John Francis Rigaud
Title: 'Vortigern and Rowena, or the first settlement of the Saxons in England'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1788 (135)
Location: Sotheby's, 14 May 1986, Lot 236 ii (one of a pair, on copper)
Engraved: Bartolozzi
Published: W. Palmer, Feb. 1788 <TC ref. cat. 39, 291>
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Norman Blackburn (x.99) <300/100>; another in Sanders of Oxford (x.98, vi.99)
Reproduced: Pressly, Rigaud, figs. 21-2

[00] Image
Artist: James Barry (1741-1806)
Title: 'Lord Baltimore and the Group of Legislators', incl. Alfred as law-maker, being a 'corrected' detail of the composition in [00] and represented by [00]
Subject/Source: revised version of a section of [00]
Engraved: Barry
Published: 1793; A Series of Etchings by James Barry, Esq., from his Original and Justly Celebrated Paintings, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi (1808)
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Royal Society of Arts (cf. Pressly II), 4.v.99 <50>; another at Norman Blackburn, x.99 <1200>
Reproduced: Pressly, pl. 124
Comment: Pressly, Barry, pp. 275-6 (no. 24); Keynes (1999), pp. 301-2

The Copper-Plate Magazine 1776

[00]
Artist: Edward Edwards (1738-1806)
Title: 'Edward the Martyr stabbed by order of Elfrida'
Engraved: J. Hall
Published: The Copper-Plate Magazine, 1 April 1776
Collections: BM, P&D; SDK
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 310

[00]
Artist: Edward Edwards (1738-1806)
Title: 'Alfred in the Neat-Herd's Cottage'
Engraved: J. Hall
Published: The Copper-Plate Magazine, 1 September 1776
Collections: BM, P&D; SDK
Reproduced: TCC photograph (SDK); Keynes (1999), p. Xb
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 310

[00]
Artist: Edward Edwards (1738-1806)
Title: 'Canute commanding the sea to retire'
Engraved: J. Hall
Published: The Copper-Plate Magazine, 1 April 1777
Collections: BM, P&D; SDK
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 310

History of England (1793) and (1802)

[00]
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Vortigern and Rowena'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: <untraced>
Engraved: C. Josi
Published: J. R. Smith, King St., Covent Garden, London, 7 Feb. 1793, as part of 'History of England' (set of four); republished by R. Ackermann, London, May 1802, as part of a set of four
Collections: <>; SDK (1793), ex Sanders of Oxford (21.vi.99) <125>
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 317 n. 447; cf. p. 315

[00] Image
Artist: Thomas Stothard
Title: 'Alfred disguised as a Harper in the Danish Camp'
Subject/Source: ultimately from William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, <>
Exhibited:
Location: <untraced> <cf. drawing of 'King Alfred the Great', attrib. to Stothard, sold at Bonham's, London, 12 Dec. 1991, Lot 219>
Engraved: E. J. Dumee
Published: J. R. Smith, King St., Covent Garden, London, 7 Feb. 1793, as part of 'History of England' (set of four); republished by R. Ackermann, London, May 1802, as part of a set of four
Collections: BM, P&D, 1849-7-21-1412 (1802), in Stothard, vol. iii, no. 1412; SDK (1793), ex Sanders of Oxford (21.vi.99) <125>
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. XIIb (1802) <BM photograph SDK>

[00] Image
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Edgar and Elfrida'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1774
Location:
Engraved: E. Scott
Published: J. R. Smith, King St., Covent Garden, London, 7 Feb. 1793, as part of 'History of England' (set of four); republished by R. Ackermann, London, May 1802, as part of a set of four
Collections: <>; SDK (1793), ex Skrebowski (xii.99) <30>, ex BBA 8.xii.99 Lot 33
Reproduced:

Bowyer's 'Historic Gallery'

[00]
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Vortigern and Rovena'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: sold at Sotheby's, 12 July 1989, Lot 98
Engraved: Delatre
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, July 1795
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <15>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: <Mellon photograph>; <Witt colour photograph>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 315

[00]
Artist: Henry Tresham
Title: 'St Augustine preaching to King Ethelbert' or 'St Augustine's mission to King Ethelbert'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1795 (19), 1806 (99)
Location: untraced
Engraved: A. Smith
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Apr. 1794
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <15>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 315

[00]
Artist: <not specified>
Title: <King Alfred the Great, with scene below showing Alfred building University of Oxford>
Subject/Source: portrait of King Alfred the Great in University College, Oxford
Engraved: W. Skelton
Published: Bowyer's Historic Gallery, Apr. 1797
Collections: SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <20>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94

[00] Image
Artist: Richard Westall (1765-1836)
Title: 'Prince Alfred before Pope Leo III [recte IV]'
Subject/Source: ultimately from ASC, s.a. 853
Exhibited:
Location: penes Thos. Agnew and Sons, 1973 <photograph in Mellon Centre>
Engraved: J. Stow
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Jan. 1794
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <20>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. XIa <BL photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 315

[00] Image
Artist: Francis Wheatley (1747-1801)
Title: 'Alfred in the House of the Neatherd'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: sold at Christie's, New York, 4 Oct. 1996, Lot 57 <Mellon photograph>
Engraved: W. Bromley
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Feb. 1795
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 1998; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <30>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. XIb <BL photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), pp. 315-16

[00] Image (engraving 50%)
Artist: Henry Singleton (1766-1839)
Title: 'Alfred liberating the family of Hastings'
Subject/Source: ultimately from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, s.a. 893
Exhibited:
Location: untraced
Engraved: W. Bromley
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Mar. 1798
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <20>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: <BL photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

[00] Image (engraving 50%)
Artist: William Hamilton, RA (1751-1801)
Title: 'Edwig and Elgiva'
Subject/Source: ultimately from Vita S. Dunstani, ch. 00
Exhibited:
Location: Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas, ex Christie's, 3 May 1985, Lot 83
Engraved: I. Taylor
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Mar. 1794
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <20>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced (painting): <http://chico.rice.edu/projects/Blaffer> <Mellon photograph; Witt colour photograph>
Reproduced (print): Hammelmann, Book Illustrators, fig. 32; <BL photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

[00] Image
Artist: Robert Smirke (1752-1845)
Title: 'The Treachery of Elfrida'
Subject/Source: murder of King Edward the Martyr in 978
Exhibited:
Location: untraced
Engraved: W. Bromley
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Apr. 1806
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <10>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

[00] Image (engraving 50%)
Artist: Robert Smirke (1752-1845)
Title: 'Canute reproving his courtiers'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: untraced
Engraved: G. Noble
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Mar. 1806
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 1998 <00>; another at Grosvenor Prints xii.99 <20>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced: <BL photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

[00]
Artist: P. J. de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)
Title: 'The Battle of Hastings'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: untraced
Engraved: W. Bromley
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, Mar. 1804
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <30>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

[00] Image
Artist: Benjamin West
Title: 'William I, receiving the crown of England'
Subject/Source:
Exhibited:
Location: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Engraved: G. Noble
Published: Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England, 1797
Collections: <>; SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints 18.xii.99 <15>, ex BBA 9.xii.99 Lot 94
Reproduced:
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 316

Westall

[00] Image
Artist: Richard Westall
Title: 'Queen Judith [sic, recte Osburh] reciting to Alfred the Great, when a child, the songs of the bards, describing the heroic deeds of his ancestors'
Date: 1799
Subject/Source:
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1800 (423)
Location (original watercolour): BM, P&D, Oo.3-12
Engraved (aquatint):
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1801 (569); British Institution 1806 (29)
Collections: BM, P&D <not found in Westall portfolio>; SDK (ex DA, ex Portobello Road, Mar. 1999)
Reproduced: Keynes (1999), pl. XIIa (watercolour) <BM photograph SDK>
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 317

Nineteenth-century prints

[00] Image
Artist: H. Warren
Title: 'King Alfred in the Swineherd's Cottage'
Date: 1846
Exhibited: New Society of Watercolours
Engraved: W. G. Mason
Published: Illustrated London News, 30 May 1846, p. 349
Collections: SDK
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 339

[00] Image
Artist: John Gilbert
Title: 'King Alfred the Great teaching the Anglo-Saxon youth'
Date: 1855
Engraved: J. W. Whymper
Reproduced: Illustrated London News, 30 June 1855, Supplement, p. 657
Collections: SDK
Comment: Keynes (1999), p. 340

[00] Image
Artist: Frank Howard
Title: 'Canute on the Sea Shore'
Published: Darton & Clark, London
Collections: SDK, ex Grosvenor Prints (24.iii.99) <45>
Comment: artist exhibited at Westminster Hall in 1845

Art-Union of London

[00]
Artist: Daniel Maclise
Subject: The Bayeux Tapestry (42 pencil drawings)
Date. 1857-
Location: Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Engraved: Lewis Gruner
Published: Story of the Norman Conquest (1866), published by the Art-Union of London
Collections: SDK, from Australia via Bibliofind (xi.99)
Reproduced: Temple, p. 37 ('William the Conqueror crosses to England')
Comment:

[00]
Artist: H.C. Selous
Subject: Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake (set of 20 lithographs)
Published: Hereward the Wake (1870), published by the Art-Union of London
Collections: SDK (from Jeremy Maule)
Reproduced: <>; photographs of four plates, made in 1990 from copy in Fitzwilliam Museum (SDK)