[Landscape with waterfall] [art original]

Description

Title: [Landscape with waterfall] [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: Jersey?
Abstract: An autumnal landscape view with a waterfall
Description: Title devised by curator.
Artist and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Attributed to Bentley and dated by Horace Walpole on verso.
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: image and sheet 11 x 15.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Landscape drawings
Watercolors English 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Topic): Waterfalls
Subjects: Jersey (Channel Islands) > Views
Waterfalls
English > 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, Landscape with Waterfall. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.