- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1756]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 45 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design for a Gothic building Lord Strafford's castle Wentworth in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 1 September 1760 Walpole wrote to Montagu: " Lord Strafford has erected the little Gothic building which I got Mr. Bentley to draw; I took the idea from Chichester cross -- It stands on a high bank in the menagerie, between a pond and a vale, totally bowered over with oaks."
- Description:
- Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink in upper left corner. and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Wentworth Castle (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies and Zoos
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Building in Lord Strafford's menagerie at Wentwork Castle Yorkshire by Mr. Bentley 1756 [art original].
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- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 23a Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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].
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pagodas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585c no. 2++ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gothic cloyster designed by Mr. Bentley [art original]
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 23b Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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].
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Floor plans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ground plan of the Chinese building for Holland House [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [September 1759]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585c no. 1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design proposed for the monument to Roger Townshend in Westminster Abbey; sent in Horace Walpole's letter to the deceased's mother Lady Townshend, Friday 21 September 1759. In his letter he attributes the design to Richard Bentley and acknowledges authorship of the epitaph: "To the memory of Roger Townshend her youngest son slain in the service of his country at ... 1759, Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend dedicates this marble. Lov'd Son, adieu! Tho' from a Mother's eyes fond tears you call, She thanks you, that without a blush they fall. Lady Townshend did not use this design but instead a design by Robert Adam
- Alternative Title:
- To the memory of Roger Townshend
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: GR., and For transcription of the letter along with a reproduction of the image, see: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 40, p. 166-67.
- Subject (Name):
- Townshend, Roger, Sir, -1493., Townshend, Ethelreda Harrison, viscountess, 1708?-1788., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Monuments & memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for Roger Townshend's monument] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585b leaf 66
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing for a canopy for a bed, probably showing the head board
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: Pro patria., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
- Subject (Topic):
- Furniture, Gothic and Canopy beds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic structure, a bed] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1753 or 1754]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 15 Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design for a canopy bed
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and Formerly mounted on leaf 15 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds and Design drawings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a bed with canopy] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585b leaf 60
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing in pen and ink with wash for a canopy for a bed with measurements noted in pencil at the bottom of sheet in Horace Walpole's hand
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: Pro patria., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a canopy for a bed] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585b leaf 61
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing showing the elevation of a three-bay, Gothic-style house with a porch, battlement-style parapet, and two-bay arched windows in roof. On verso a square in ink with small extension of the lines in pencil
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a three bay Gothic house] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 2 Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of a bridge over a river with falls, a rugged terrain with a fallen tree lower left. A man rides his donkey over the bridge
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 2 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
- Subject (Topic):
- Bridges and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Donkey with rider on vaulted bridge] [art original]