- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1754]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 33 Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two perspectives of the shell seat at Strawberry Hill: in the center a view from the front with a tree behind and to the right probably a view from the side, now torn. The seat stood at the end of a winding walk, on what was then called Wood Walk
- Description:
- Title inscribed by the artist in ink below design., Signed by the artist in ink lower right., Watermark (partial) centered in lower edge., Date based on a 1754 note of payment in Walpole's Accounts to William Robinson for making the shell seat., and Formerly mounted on leaf 33 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):
- Seating furniture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design for a seat at Strawberry Hill [art original]
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