[Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original] / RB [monogram].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1753]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : brown wash with ink and pencil on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 30.5 cm
- Notes:
- Title devised by curator.
Date from Harris.
Extensive notes, including price estimates, by Bentley surrounding drawing and signed by Bentley with his monogram.
Formerly mounted on leaf 38 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:
- Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill with extensive notes on the design and dimensions. The sketch includes a figure (Horace Walpole probably) reaching for a book on a shelf in the center alcove. The drawing was later part of the portfolio entitled by Horace Walpole Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley.
- Topics:
- Libraries (Rooms)
Private libraries--Designs and plans. - Topics:
- Bentley, R.--(Richard),--1708-1782--Ms. notes.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Pictorial works.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Design drawings.
Wash drawings--British--18th century. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Call Number:
- 49
3585
leaf 38
Folio 49 3585 leaf 38 Box 3 - Orbis Record:
- 8943919
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr17070
- Citation:
- Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, p. 26
Richard Bentley, Alternative Design for the Library at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. - OID:
- 16193318
- PID:
- digcoll:4047299
