Design (not executed) for a seat in a garden at Isleworth [art original]

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Title: Design (not executed) for a seat in a garden at Isleworth [art original]
Alternative Title: Design of a Gothic seat for Mrs. Cavendish at Thistleworth by Mr. Bentley
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A design drawing for a seat in a garden with three Gothic arches and a banner at the base showing the location of a tree
Description: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount. Harris notes that the house for which this drawing was done is not known.
Added title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing: Design of a Gothic seat for Mrs. Cavendish at Thistleworth by Mr. Bentley.
Signed in lower corner of banner with Bentley's monogram: RB.
Date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on leaf 35 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 : image and sheet 27.1 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: ink and wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Benches
Subjects: Benches
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design (Not Executed) for a Seat in a Garden at Isleworth. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.