A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus in the center of a dome?
Alternative Title:
Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso., Alternative title from note on mount in Horace Walpole's hand: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden., Artist from Walpole's note., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 25 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus in the center of a dome?
Alternative Title:
Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso., Alternative title from note on mount in Horace Walpole's hand: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden., Artist from Walpole's note., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 25 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
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
Alternative Title:
Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
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., and 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].
On recto: One of three designs by Bentley for a Chinese buidling. This sketch shows the garden in front the proposed Chinese building. In the end of the designs were executed. On verso: a small pen sketch of a roof line
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
An unexecuted design for the palace of Richard Trevor (1707-1771), Bishop of Durham from 1752. Horace Walpole commented about the construction project on 19 October 1760, "St. Durham told my Lord Manchester, who is just come from Auckland, that he had laid out sixteen hundred pounds there, and has now a hundred men at work a day." The gateway that was finally built for the Bishop was designed by Sir Thomas Robinson. See J. Harris
Description:
Title inscribed by artist at bottom of sheet., Watermark in center of sheet., and Formerly mounted on leaf 21 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Elevation of flank of seven bays of pointed arches divided by thin buttresses, and elevation of end. This is probably the design for the cloister linking Bateman's house to this Gothic Octagon designed by Muntz. In a letter written to George Montagu on 24 September 1762, Horace Walpole refers to Bentley's design for Bateman's cloister; also associated with Walpole's Strawberry Hill. See Harris
Alternative Title:
Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner below design., Date based on correspondence between Montague and Walpole in which this design is discussed., and Watermark: [...] C. Blauw.
Subject (Name):
Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
One of three designs for a Chinese garden buildling; this one showing the floor plan. None of the designs were executed
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on lower half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Page 26A. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to Hymn to adversity
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's notes beneath similar drawings in the same volume, which identify Bentley as the artist., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the tailpiece to Hymn to adversity., and Mounted on page [26A] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Opposite page 8. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of Science adoring the shade of King Henry
Description:
Title from note in ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. Thomas Kirgate's pencil annotation "written by Mr. H. Walpole" is beneath Walpole's note., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's note in pencil below image: First sketch, by Mr. Bentley., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the headpiece to Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College., and Mounted opposite page [8] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.