- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 57v Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of the floor plan design for the gallery round tower in Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil additions and a note "a window to the dome".
- Alternative Title:
- Designs for the Gallery round tower, and chapel and Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso., Title from former curator: Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., and Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Galleries (Display spaces)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].
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- Creator:
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1758]
- Call Number:
- SH Views M92 no. 5 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
- Alternative Title:
- East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
- Description:
- Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > East view of Strawberry-hill near Twickenham in Middlesex [art original]
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- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1758]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 29 Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing showing the view of the entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, with detailed notes and measurements by the artist. The doorway is flanked by two windows and a large window above
- Description:
- Title at top of drawing, from a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink over graphite. Damage with loss of text in upper right corner., Date from J. Harris., Watermark in center of sheet., Part of a portfolio of drawings assembled by Horace Walpole under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., "Breadth of the window with [the] frame: 5: foot"--Note in Walpole's hand, in image., "The shields must project in a ridge down the middle"--Note in Walpole's hand, lower right., and Formerly mounted on leaf 29 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Doors & doorways
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]. [art original]
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585b leaf 63
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a section with half-wall plan for the Tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Watermark in center of sheet: GR with crown., and One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Section of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill] [art original].