A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Alternative Title:
Road in Jersey
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of Bentley's drawings., Date based on other dated drawings of scenes in Jersey by Bentley., and Formerly mounted on the middle of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole in ink on mount., Date and artist from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley, Esq., 1754., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
SH Contents C323 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing representing the procession in the romance of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Description:
John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary., Signed and titled by the artist, lower center. Same text transcribed in another hand on verso., and Later label on verso: This picture was painted by John Carter (1748-1817) and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1790. It belonged to Horace Walpole and was at Strawberry Hill until the sale in 1842 when it was bought by the Reverend Horace Cholmondeley from whom it came through his daughter and grand-daughter to H.C.J.
A design for a vignette by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. With pencilled in design above
Alternative Title:
Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of drawings assembled under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., Added title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: Sketch for the tailpiece of The long story., Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 3 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title assigned by curator., Caption written in black ink, below image: "Castle of Otranto. Manfred's compunction at the remonstrance of the Friar on the impropriaty of his conduct. P. 42.", and For further information consult library staff.