Watercolor drawing depicting the Gothic lantern, designed by Richard Bentley, that hung in the well of the staircase at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Statement of responsibility from pencil annotation, probably in Thomas Kirgate's hand, on mounting page below image., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Mounted on page 25 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.