- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1754]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 44 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of a Gothic bench (center) and to the left a Gothic chair with a detail to the right of a drain?
- Alternative Title:
- Designs for Gothic benches and chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley
- Description:
- Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand in ink., Date based on a 27 July 1754 note to Bentley: "In the first place, my chairs! If you had taken a quarter of the time to draw what they might be, that you have employed to describe what they must not be, I might possibly have had some begun by this time. Would not one think that it was I who make charming drawings and designs and not you? I shall have very little satisfaction in them, if I am to invent them! ...", and Formerly mounted on leaf 44 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Benches and Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Designs for Gothic benches & chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].
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