IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/251
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HARDING, George Perfect (1779/80-1853)
Date(s): 1828-1851
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): Harding | George Perfect | 1779/80-1853 | miniature painter
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
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.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two volumes.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
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.
Publication note:
Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 233.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.