View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].

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Title: View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].
Alternative Title: View from Jersey 1753
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: Jersey
Abstract: A view of the coastline from Bentley's home in Jersey, Channel Islands
Description: Title from mount; titled, attributed, and dated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso.
Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1761].
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 : image and sheet 10.8 x 15.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Seascape drawings
Watercolors English 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Name): Bentley, R. 1708-1782 (Richard),
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Subjects: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782 > Homes and haunts
Jersey (Channel Islands) > Pictorial works
English > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, View from Above Mr. Bentley's House in Jersey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.