[Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].

Description

Title: [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].
Alternative Title: Design for a Gothic chimneypiece
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: One of two drawings of an Gothic chimneypiece mounted on page 26. On the verso of this drawing is a pencil sketch of a man in profile showing the left portion of the coat and sleeve
Description: Title from curator.
Artist and date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 26 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 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: 2 drawings on 1 sheet : image 12.3 x 13 cm and image 12.3 x 6 cm, on sheet 12.3 x 13 cm
Language: No linguistic content

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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design for a Gothic Chimneypiece. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.