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Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill
Title
[Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original] / RB [monogram].
Production
[Strawberry Hill], [1753]
Physical Description
1 drawing : brown wash with ink and pencil ; sheet 14.2 x 30.5 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Date from Harris.
Extensive notes, including price estimates, by Bentley surrounding drawing and signed by Bentley with his monogram.
Formerly mounted on leaf 38 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
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.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2009
References
Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, page 26
Richard Bentley, Alternative Design for the Library at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Alternative Design for the Library 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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