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1.
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley, only son of Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity-College

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:
[approximately 1760]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585
Image Count:
69
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley, only son of Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity-College, Cambridge [art original].

2.
Memoires of the year 1751, [ca. 1754]

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 152
Image Count:
42
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, containing primarily the beginnings and endings of various sections of the memoirs of political characters and events during the reign of King George II. The focus of the collection, however, is on the drawings and engraved headpieces and tailpieces which appear on these pages. These include a pen drawing by Richard Bentley of Walpole presenting the work to Democritus, with his villa at Strawberry Hill behind him; the head of George II by Johann Muntz, set in a headpiece designed by Bentley; and engravings of William Murray; Henry Pelham; Thomas Pelham-Holles; and Archibald Campbell, many also set in pieces drawn by Bentley. The collection also contains a pencil drawing of Henry Lord Holland, with the annotation, "Sr H. Reynolds pinxt"; an appendix explaining the engravings; and a newspaper notice of the death of William Stanhope, Earl of Harrington
Alternative Title:
Memoirs of King George II.
Description:
In English., Available on microfilm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782. (Richard),, Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, approximately 1690-1756., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798., Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768., Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Memoires of the year 1751, [ca. 1754]

3.
Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 149
Image Count:
20
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; and continues with biographical information about his college years; his first employment; his travels with Thomas Gray; and his Parliamentary activities. Much of the manuscript concerns the pieces he wrote, both published and unpublished, and those he published with the Strawberry Hill Press, as well as his reactions to the reviews he received. He also includes anecdotes concerning his attack by highwaymen in 1749; the family quarrel with his uncle Horace Walpole; and his disagreements with David Hume and Voltaire
Description:
In English., Title from first page., Typed transcript available., and Leaves are contained in a paper cover, unstitched.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and of Catherine Shorter, his first wife, 1746-1779

4.
Mr. Richard Bentley [art original].

Creator:
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Richard Bentley; in his right hand he holds his own design of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by him for the edition of Thomas Gray's Odes (1753).
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 5885., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 71 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782, (Richard), and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Richard Bentley [art original].

5.
Richard Bentley, Esqr from the original by Eckardt in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

Creator:
Greatbach, William, 1802- printmaker
Published / Created:
1840.
Call Number:
Portraits B477 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Richard Bentley
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782, (Richard),
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Richard Bentley, Esqr from the original by Eckardt in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

6.
Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope

Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.2
Image Count:
311
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Dodsley
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life and Etiquette
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects

7.
Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope

Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.1
Image Count:
296
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Dodsley
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life and Etiquette
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects

8.
View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1753]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 6b Box 1
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the coastline from Bentley's home in Jersey, Channel Islands
Alternative Title:
View from Jersey 1753
Description:
Title from mount; titled, attributed, and dated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso. and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1761].
Subject (Geographic):
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782 (Richard),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].

9.
[Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1753]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 38 Box 3
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill with extensive notes on the design and dimensions. The sketch includes a figure (Horace Walpole probably) reaching for a book on a shelf in the center alcove. The drawing was later part of the portfolio entitled by Horace Walpole Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date from Harris., Extensive notes, including price estimates, by Bentley surrounding drawing and signed by Bentley with his monogram., and Formerly mounted on leaf 38 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Private libraries and Libraries (Rooms)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

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