Sketch of Science adoring the shade of K. Henry [art original].

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Title: Sketch of Science adoring the shade of K. Henry [art original].
Alternative Title: Sketch of Science adoring the shade of King Henry
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1753]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from note in ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. Thomas Kirgate's pencil annotation "written by Mr. H. Walpole" is beneath Walpole's note.
Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's note in pencil below image: First sketch, by Mr. Bentley.
Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the headpiece to Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College.
Mounted opposite page [8] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate. Rosenbach to W.S. Lewis, September 1934.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 15.6 x 15.3 cm, inlaid to 33.0 x 24.0 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 532 C753g Copy 2
Collection Title: Opposite page 8. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Collection/Other Creator: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Collection Date: London, J. Dodsley, 1789.

Genre: Book illustrations
Allegorical drawings
Wash drawings
Material: brown and gray wash over pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471,
Subjects: Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Sketch of Science Adoring the Shade of K. Henry. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.