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A view in Jersey
Title
A view in Jersey [art original].
Production
[Jersey], [ca. 1760?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor with pencil ; sheet 8.2 x 11 cm
Notes
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.
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].
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 57, to William Knight, Esq., £4.2.0; London sale number lot 1255 of the 10th day of sale, with the lot number still preserved on spine. Sold by Spencer through Fletcher to W.S. Lewis for £210, May 1926.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Title in pencil on verso: Road in Jersey
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2016
References
Richard Bentley, A View in Jersey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, A View in Jersey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Views.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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