Turkish bath [art original] / RB.

Creator:

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

Copyright Date:

[not after 1760]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pen and wash on thick laid paper ; image 27.6 x 23.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 27.7 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 based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on leaf 24 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Signed in lower left of design with Bentley's monogram: RB.
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 inscribed below design.
With Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: A Turkish bath by Mr. Bentley.

Abstract:

A drawing showing the interior of a Turkish bath with a woman in the pool in the foreground, another seated smoking a long pipe on cushions in an alcove, center back, and a black woman, clothed and standing on the right holding a stick and towel as she looks at the woman in the pool. Behind her is a figure in the process of tying a towel around her head.

Topics:

Baths, Turkish.
Blacks.
Interiors.
Pipes (Smoking)
Public baths.
Women.

Topics:

Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

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 24 Box 2

Orbis Record:

13045635

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr17046

Citation:

Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, p. 29
Richard Bentley, Turkish Bath. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16873172

PID:

digcoll:4848239