- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1750?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 51r Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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].
- Subject (Name):
- Marble Hill House (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Convents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The priory of St. Hubert, a farm belonging to the Countess of Suffolk at Marble-Hill near Twickenham [art original].
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- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 24 Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Turkish bath [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 59
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic bed with canopy] [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:
- [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].
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- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 54 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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].
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hertfordshire (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Seabright, Thomas Saunders, -1761.
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Farmhouses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Side elevation of a design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire] [art original].