Mr. Richard Bentley [art original].

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Title: Mr. Richard Bentley [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Half-length portrait of Richard Bentley; in his right hand he holds his own design of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by him for the edition of Thomas Gray's Odes (1753).
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 5885.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 71 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 13.7 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bentley, R. 1708-1782, (Richard),
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Mr. Richard Bentley. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.