Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].

Creator:

Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist.

Copyright Date:

[not after 1760]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pen and ink and brown wash with pencil on laid paper ; sheet 37.8 x 22.9 cm

Related Links:

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Notes:

Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Title from former curator: Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on creation date of album.
Watermark in center of sheet: IV.
Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 57, to William Knight, Esq., £4.2.0; London sale number lot 1255 of the 10th day of sale, with the lot number still preserved on spine. Sold by Spencer through Fletcher to W.S. Lewis for £210, May 1926.

Abstract:

A drawing of the floor plan design for the gallery round tower in Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil additions and a note "a window to the dome".

Variant Titles:

Designs for the Gallery round tower, and chapel
Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill

Topics:

Galleries (Display spaces)

Topics:

Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Pictorial works.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Walpole, Horace--1717-1797--Homes and haunts.

Language:

English

Genre:

Design drawings.
Wash drawings--British--18th century.
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Source Title:

Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...

Call Number:

49 3585
leaf 57v
Folio 49 3585 leaf 57v Box 4

Orbis Record:

13052986

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr17095

Citation:

Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, p. 23
Richard Bentley, Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16193336

PID:

digcoll:4047282