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George Vertue's Notebook (British Library, Add.Ms. 23,076) quoted in The Twenty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society 1933 – 34 22 (1934): 32.
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Vertue's engravings, from Sir Peter, in the folio editions of 1720 and
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Shakspeare's Dramas, frequently quote from _Vertue's_ MSS.
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Vertue's portrait, engraved 1727, takes as a motto the last two lines of the first epitaph -- "Anglica te vivo," &c.
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Ludlow, who tells us this, was one of the regicides, and what he states, simply and straightforwardly, is confirmed by any engraving of the execution, published at Amsterdam in the same year, and by the following memorandum of Vertue's on the copy of Terasson's large engraving of the Banqueting
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The original picture from which Vertue's print was taken, was at Pallion, near Durham, the seat of his grandson, John Goodchild, Esq.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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A section from Vertue's engraving, 1747, of a survey of Whitehall made by John Fisher, 1660-1670.
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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The student should be warned against Vertue's reproduction, often met with.
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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I am glad you are pleased, Sir, with my “Anecdotes of Painting;” but I doubt you praise me too much: it was an easy task when I had the materials collected, and I would not have the labours of forty years, which was Vertue's case, depreciated in compliment to the work of four months, which is almost my whole merit.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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Ellis's collection of letters, representing Ralegh at forty-four, with a map of Cadiz; by that at Knole, from which Vertue's print in Oldys's
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