A view in Jersey [art original]

Description

Title: A view in Jersey [art original]
Alternative Title: Landscape with upright rocks
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: Jersey?
Abstract: A design by Bentley of a landscape with upright hills on the right and left and in the middle distance, with a line of trees on the ridge in the middle distance and on the path through the hills in the foreground
Description: Title, artist, and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 5 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Provenance: 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.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 10.9 x 15.6 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Views
Landscapes (Representations)
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor and wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subjects: Jersey (Channel Islands) > Views
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Richard Bentley, A View in Jersey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.