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

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Title: Design for the library at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753 or 1754]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: Proposed design for the library at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham
Description: Titles on verso and mount in Horace Walpole's hand in ink.
Dated ca. 1754 in: Snodin, M. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven : Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 34.
Dated ca. 1753 in: Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Gregg Press, [1971], page 26.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 37 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 : sheet 16.1 x 18.4 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Designs and plans
Design drawings
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray and brown wash with ink and pencil ; 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 by Mr. Bentley. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.