Design for the library at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Description

Title: Design for the library at Strawberry Hill [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: Design of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing six Gothic bays of shelving with quatrefoil designs above and a door on the right; statues and busts above the bays. Walpole has made notes on the verso of the drawing noting changes and dimensions
Description: Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the verso of the drawing.
Date from Horace Walpole correspondence.
Sheet slightly irregular, trimmed in lower half of the right edge.
Formerly mounted on leaf 36 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 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 : design and sheet 18.4 x 31.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Designs and plans
Design drawings
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: ink and brown wash with graphite ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Private libraries
Libraries (Rooms)
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Private libraries > Designs and plans
Libraries (Rooms)
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design for the Library at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.