A collection of 75 drawings and designs for Strawberry Hill which document the growth of Strawberry Hill whilst Bentley was in favor with the owner Horace Walpole and part of the "Strawberry Committee" (ca. 1753-1761) along with John Chute. Drawings include: the first plans for the main library. Besides the designs for Strawberry Hill, there are plans for other buildings, views of Jersey, sketches for Gray's Poems, etc
Alternative Title:
Drawings and designs by Richard Bentley ...
Description:
Title from special title page printed at Strawberry Hill Press, ca. 1760. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Strawberry Hill press, p. 255., With notes by Horace Walpole and Richard Bentley on mounts and drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Artist unknown; formerly attributed to John Chessell Buckler. and Acquired with John Chessel Buckler's watercolor entitled: House no. 11 on the east side of Berkeley Square ... Cf. Lewis Walpole Library 827.00.00.58dr.
"James Allen, a woman, standing whole length in profile to left, dressed in man's clothes, holding a hat in her left hand, her right hand reaching out towards wife Abigail, standing in profile to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from captions below images., Design consists of two images side by side, each individually titled., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pencil sketch of shoes and a ribbon[?] on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. by I.S. Thomas, 2 York Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Allen, Abigail Naylor, and Allen, James, 1787-1829,
Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 1763-1844, artist
Published / Created:
August & Septr. 1790.
Call Number:
75 G739 790
Image Count:
44
Abstract:
An album containing drawings of castles, ruins, abbeys, landscapes, roads, and bridges drawn by the artist while on tour in northern Wales in August and September 1790, the year before her marriage. Most of the drawings are titled with names of places visited and are listed on the front flyleaf. On the verso of the fifth drawing, sometime after 1826, the artist has written a short piece entitled "Recollections" in which she compares travelling in Wales in 1790 to the last trip she took in 1826
Description:
Elizabeth Susanna Davenport (1764-1844) was a writer known for her books written for children. She married lawyer Thomas Graham (1751-1814)., Binding: Marble boards, half-leather, with wax seal and stamped with the initiials ESD [i.e. Elizabeth Susanna Davenport]., In the artist's hand on front pastedown: "This is for THF" [i.e. her son Thomas Henry Graham]., and For further information, consult library staff.