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
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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].
Possibly a design for a new home for His Royal Highness the Duke to replace his Great Lodge in Windsor Great Park. See J. Harris
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Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., Signed in lower right with Bentley's monogram: RB., and Formerly mounted on leaf 20 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].