First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].

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Title: First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].
Alternative Title: Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1753]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A design for a vignette by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. With pencilled in design above
Description: Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of drawings assembled under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760.
Added title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: Sketch for the tailpiece of The long story.
Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 3 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 18.3 x 15.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Subject (Topic): Balconies
Women
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Illustrations
Balconies
Women
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, First Design for the Cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's Long Story. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.