[Vigilant lion] [art original]

Description

Title: [Vigilant lion] [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1755]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing by Bentley showing a lion reclining on his side in front of a cave
Description: Title devised by curator.
Date and attribution from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Formerly mounted on leaf 10 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 : image and sheet 7 x 37.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Lions
Subjects: Lions
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Vigilant Lion. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.