Collectie GB 0074 CLC/251 - HARDING, George Perfect (1779/80-1853)

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GB 0074 CLC/251 1828-1851 Collection 2 production units. Harding , George Perfect , 1779/80-1853 , miniature painter

George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), was a portrait painter, copyist and antiquary. He specialised in miniature portraiture, and provided the illustrations to various antiquarian publications, such as Antiquities in Westminster Abbey: ancient oil paintings and sepulchral brasses, engraved from drawings by G. P. Harding, with an historical, biographical and heraldic description, by T. Moule (1825). In 1828 he produced an illustrated manuscript history of the Princes of Wales.

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Transcript of the manuscript history of the Princes of Wales, from the time of Edward of Caernarvon to the present sovereign of England, by George Perfect Harding, F.S.A., also a description of a series of illustrations to the manuscript history, 1828, with engravings of tombs, portraits, original drawings, and manuscript letters, 1828-51, from royal and distinguished personages.

Two volumes.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Examples of Harding's work are in the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Newport Art Gallery; and Bath City Art Gallery.

Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 233.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

August to October 2010. Antiquaries Fine arts Painting Paintings Portraits Historians Royal portraits History Historical research People Princes People by roles Social scientists Harding , George Perfect , 1779-1853 , miniature painter Illustrations Visual materials

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Transcript of the manuscript history of the Princes of Wales, from the time of Edward of Caernarvon to the present sovereign of England, by George Perfect Harding, F.S.A., also a description of a series of illustrations to the manuscript history, 1828, with engravings of tombs, portraits, original drawings, and manuscript letters, 1828-51, from royal and distinguished personages.

Two volumes.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

• Engels

• Latijn

English

Examples of Harding's work are in the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Newport Art Gallery; and Bath City Art Gallery.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels