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Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House
Title
Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1760]
Physical Description
2 drawings : pen and grey wash ; irregular sheet 12 x 17 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title inscribed below design.
Date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 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
On recto: One of three designs by Bentley for a Chinese buidling. This sketch shows the garden in front the proposed Chinese building. In the end of the designs were executed. On verso: a small pen sketch of a roof line.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 01, 2017
References
Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, page 21
Richard Bentley, Front to the Flower-Garden, of the Chinese Building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Front to the Flower-Garden, of the Chinese Building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Design drawings.
Proposed works.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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