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 devised by curator., Questionable attribution to Henry Keene (1726-1776), architect and surveyor., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Scale below image, with contemporary mss. notation: "A scale of feets.", Formerly housed as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Ink and wash architectural drawing of an elevation of a room with a gothic chimneypiece that includes an ornate mirror with cartouche frame over the mantel. Copious notes in pencil are dispersed throughout the plan and include construction materials and corrections
Alternative Title:
Interior elevation and plan of a room with gothic chimneypiece surrounded by a mirror
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Chimneypieces, Cornices, Architectural mirrors, and Floor plans
Designs for a classical temple with a part plan and elevation on recto and on the verso, a cross section or half elevation and part section
Description:
Title and date from Harris., Signed by the artist on recto, lower left below image., Watermark centered on lower edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 28 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Designs for a classical temple with a part plan and elevation on recto and on the verso, a cross section or half elevation and part section
Description:
Title and date from Harris., Signed by the artist on recto, lower left below image., Watermark centered on lower edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 28 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
One of a series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; this drawing with scale and images of statuary and vases
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence to Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... a new Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond and going to execute at Strawberry Hill.", With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink in lower right: N.B. There is an error in this drawing. The radius of the bow, wanting near a foot. The Ichnog will correct it., With watermark along lower edge of paper, trimmed: D and C Blauw., and Formerly mounted on leaf 49 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. IV and No. V, of a Mrs. Ann G--n--r and Jeffrey, Lord Amherst
Alternative Title:
Americanus
Description:
Title from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 57.
"Portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Chesterfield, seated three-quarter length to front, with head tilted to left, looking to front; her right arm resting on chair arm and left hand on the back of a dog, leaning on her knee; wearing a loose satin robe with shawl and pearl jewellery; curtain behind at right, sculpture of two playing putti at left."--from British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker's name from Catalogue of engraved British portraits. and Plate from: Beauties of the Court of Charles II. London : Colburn & Bentley, 1831. Lely cited as the artist for this publication.