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].
Designs for the chapel tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. On the recto a wash drawing of the interior vaults with additions in pencil. On the verso a rough sketch of the floor plan
Description:
Title from mount in Horace Walpole's Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley [1760]. and Date from: Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Gregg Press, [1971], page 26.
Designs for the chapel tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. On the recto a wash drawing of the interior vaults with additions in pencil. On the verso a rough sketch of the floor plan
Description:
Title from mount in Horace Walpole's Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley [1760]. and Date from: Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Gregg Press, [1971], page 26.
A design for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing a small statue on a pedestal surrounded by piles of books (one with a pen and ink well on top) and a heraldric shield with helmet mounted at top and a garland draped on either side and through the design; acanthus leaves on scroll at the base
Alternative Title:
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount., Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]., Below the design a note in the artist's hand: The books to be letter'd. Phalaris! Free thinkers! Boyle, lectures! Horace [illegible] Terence! Milton! Manilius! Ep. Ad. Millium's sermons!, Portion of a watermark on lower left corner., and Formerly mounted at the lower half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65. and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A design for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing the head of Medusa with swords and spears entertwined, cross-crossed between the snakes that make up her hair. Above her head is a helmet with plumes. On the four corners of the design are the observe and reverse of coins showing Caesar, Anthony, Brutus, and Pompey. In the background is Strawberry Hill. With notes about the design in the artist's hand
Alternative Title:
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount., Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]., and Formerly mounted at the top half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65. and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
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].
A drawing of a design for the gateway with scale to Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil sketches of a floor plan and other notes and sketch
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at top right of sheet., Formerly mounted on leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Two chairs drawn from images in the stained glass at Strawberry Hill, with a note in the lower right corner in ink: "The height of the seat will determine the scale." Additional details and notes in pencil throughout
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink in upper right corner above drawings. and Formerly mounted on leaf 43 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A drawing of an Gothic chimneypiece with mantel. On the verso of this drawing is a small pencil sketch of a portion of a chimneypiece
Description:
Title inscribed below design in unidentified hand., Signed by the artist with his monogram in lower right corner of sheet: RB., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 27 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].