Ground plan of the Chinese building for Holland House [art original].

Description

Title: Ground plan of the Chinese building for Holland House [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: One of three designs for a Chinese garden buildling; this one showing the floor plan. None of the designs were executed
Description: Title inscribed below design.
Date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on lower half of leaf 23 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 15 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings
Proposed works
Wash drawings British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink with grey wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Subject (Topic): Floor plans
Subjects: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Floor plans
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Ground Plan of the Chinese Building for Holland House. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.