Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, with notes

Description

Title: Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, with notes
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: Drawing of a Chinese tea-house with scale of a room and extensive notes, possibly the building referenced in Horace Walpole's Description of the villa ..., designed and drawn by Mr. Bentley for the corner of the wood at Strawberry Hill, where the chapel was constructed ...
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed in lower right below image: Rd. Bentley design.
Date based on creation date of album.
Watermark in center of sheet: IV.
Formerly mounted on leaf 18 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 : irregular sheet 19 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings
Proposed works
Ink drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: Indian ink with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Teahouses
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Teahouses
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Elevation of a Chinese Tea-House, with Notes. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.