A design for St. Hubert's Priory, a perspective with part plan showing piers of the tower. The steeple has been drawn on a separate piece of paper and mounted to the sheet with the main building, cut to line up with the roof line
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing., Date from J. Harris., With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink below title: N.B. This was built, but pulled down after her death., With a watermark (partial) in center of sheet., and Formerly mounted on leaf 51 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing showing the interior of a Turkish bath with a woman in the pool in the foreground, another seated smoking a long pipe on cushions in an alcove, center back, and a black woman, clothed and standing on the right holding a stick and towel as she looks at the woman in the pool. Behind her is a figure in the process of tying a towel around her head
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Signed in lower left of design with Bentley's monogram: RB., With Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: A Turkish bath by Mr. Bentley., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 24 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):
Baths, Turkish, Blacks, Interiors, Public baths, Pipes (Smoking), and Women
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.
Drawing for a Gothic canopy bed with a canopy above
Description:
Title devised by curator., With watermark partial, center right edge: fleur-de-lis., 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Description:
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].
Title and date supplied by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., and Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's copy of his Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
A drawing showing the side elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note on the other drawing included in the album for this project
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark (partial) left edge, in the middle of the sheet: top of crest., and Formerly mounted on leaf 54 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].