[Sketch for Gray's Bard with landscape] [art original].

Creator:

Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82220095

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1753?]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : grey wash with brown ink on laid paper ; sheet 38.0 x 47 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8936460 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2801620 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/XXXXXXX

Notes:

Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication.
Formerly mounted (folded) on leaf 11 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards.
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.
Title devised by curator.
With watermark and countermark in center of sheet: L.V. Gerrevink and IV.

Abstract:

A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: in a landscape with a tree on the left and mountains in the distance (right), four men on horseback confront a bearded man who holds hold out his arm in defense while hiding his harp behind his back. In the right foreground, a figure of a child amongst the riders.

Topics:

Gray, Thomas,--1716-1771.--Poems.--Selections--Illustrations.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable

Genre:

Allegorical drawings.
Book illustrations.
Wash drawings--British--18th century.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

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:

Folio 49 3585 leaf 11++ (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

13055282

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr17027

Citation:

Richard Bentley, Sketch for Gray's Bard with Landscape. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16873171

PID:

digcoll:4848238