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Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberryhill 1760
Title
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberryhill 1760 [art original].
Production
[Strawberry Hill], [1760]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink ; sheet 12 x 17 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount.
Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760].
Below the design a note in the artist's hand: The books to be letter'd. Phalaris! Free thinkers! Boyle, lectures! Horace [illegible] Terence! Milton! Manilius! Ep. Ad. Millium's sermons!
Portion of a watermark on lower left corner.
Formerly mounted at the lower half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 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 for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing a small statue on a pedestal surrounded by piles of books (one with a pen and ink well on top) and a heraldric shield with helmet mounted at top and a garland draped on either side and through the design; acanthus leaves on scroll at the base.
Variant and related titles
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2016
References
Richard Bentley, Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan Printed at Strawberry Hill 1760. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan Printed at Strawberry Hill 1760. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Allegorical drawings.
Book illustrations.
Vignettes.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Watermarks (Paper)
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