First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist[approximately 1753]engA 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 aboveTitle 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].