George Vertue
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George Vertue was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
1733 portrait of Vertue by Jonathan Richardson
The Gate at Whitehall (Holbein Gate) in Vetusta Monumenta Vol.1, 1747 (1826).
Vetusta Monumenta
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Vetusta Monumenta is the title of a published series of illustrated antiquarian papers on ancient buildings, sites and artefacts, mostly those of Britain, published at irregular intervals between 1718
George Vertue
…of Antiquaries, the same year as its formal foundation, and the only engraver to be made a Fellow of the Society (FSA). Most of the illustrations in Vetusta Monumenta, up to his date of death, are his work. After the death of the Earl of Oxford in 1741, Vertue was patronised by the Duchess of Portland and others. The…
Roman mosaics from Wellow, near Bath, Somerset: double-page spread in volume 1, in an 1826 reprint
Pit Mead Roman villa mosaic, illustrations by Catherine Downes, engraved by James Basire and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Daines Barrington