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date 1560 in Roman numerals, made palpable alterations and omissions in order that he might retain the delusive date, and took other unwarrantable liberties with the object of disguising the fraud. The unhappy result of this tinkering of the original design was that numerous subsequent antiquaries were victims of the deception. Mr. Overall is of opinion that Vertue, having become possessed of the parts of a copy of the map made by some unknown Dutch engraver in the reign of
William III, caused them to be "tinkered," probably for the purpose of deceiving his antiquarian friends. Of course the numerous copies of the spurious map issued by Vertue are of little or no value; …
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In 1737 George Vertue, the engraver and antiquary, published a pretended copy of Agas's map of London , stating that it was executed in 1560, and that it gave a true representation of the metropolis as it existed at the beginning of Queen
Elizabeth's reign. Vertue crowned his pretended copy with the
703:"Civitatis Londinum Ani Dni Circiter MDLX./ Londinum Antique, this plan shows the ancient extent of the famous cities of London and Westminster as it was near the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (8 sheets) Vertue, Soc. Antiq., Lond. Exxudit 1737"
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As official engraver to the
Society of Antiquaries, with works relating to this field of natural history, Vertue was prolific: Richard II at Westminster; a view of Waltham Cross; the shrine of Edward the Confessor; are notable mentions from his works in
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research, and much of his labour was given to this subject. From 1713 on, Vertue was a keen researcher on details of the history of
British art, accumulating about forty volumes of notebooks. He was a member of the
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A portrait of Vertue was painted in 1715 by Gibson, his widow donated this to the
Society of Antiquaries; Vertue had produced an engraving of this. A later painting, of the artist aged around 50, by
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Approximately five hundred portraits are attributed to Vertue, a similar number of published plates were devoted to antiquarian subjects. Many of the portraits were printed as
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1753 (reprinted 1780). Vertue was also involved with the pre-production of surveys of royal collections, Vanderdoort's catalogue of the collection of
Charles I,
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and other artists and connoisseurs, and kept some records of it. His travels to sites across
England, with enthusiasts such as
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Caroline at Kensington; these saw print after his death, prefaced by Walpole.
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Vertue, G. V.; Honthorst (1730). "Benjamin
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purchased Vertue's notebooks after his death. Although disorderly and mainly unreflective, Walpole based his
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Vertue, G.; Holbein, H. (1700). "Edward VI, King of England, half-length portrait, facing slightly left".
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that was engraved by him. The second of his three brothers, Peter, was a dancing master of Chelmsford.
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