[Landscape with figures] [art original]

Description

Title: [Landscape with figures] [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: Jersey?
Abstract: A design by Bentley of landscape with falls in the lower right, a tree in the center, and a large rock formation to the left. A man sits by a rock (center); two figures (a woman and a child) walk from left to right carrying an urn and a bundle, respectively; another figure walks in silhouette in the distance (center).
Description: Title devised by curator.
Attribution from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley Esq., 1753.
Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 4 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.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 10.9 x 15.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Landscapes (Representations)
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor and wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subjects: Jersey (Channel Islands) > Views
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Richard Bentley, Landscape with Figures. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.