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Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]
Title
Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill [art original] : N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t].
Production
[Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1758]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pencil and ink with wash ; sheet 31.4 x 20 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title at top of drawing, from a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink over graphite. Damage with loss of text in upper right corner.
Date from J. Harris.
Watermark in center of sheet.
Part of a portfolio of drawings assembled by Horace Walpole under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760.
"Breadth of the window with [the] frame: 5: foot"--Note in Walpole's hand, in image.
"The shields must project in a ridge down the middle"--Note in Walpole's hand, lower right.
Formerly mounted on leaf 29 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, October 2009 - January 2010.
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, March - June 2010.
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 drawing showing the view of the entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, with detailed notes and measurements by the artist. The doorway is flanked by two windows and a large window above.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 16, 2008
References
Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, p. 26
Richard Bentley, Entrance from the Road at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Entrance from the Road at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Design drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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