Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]. [art original]

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Title: Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]. [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1758]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: A drawing showing the view of the entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, with detailed notes and measurements by the artist. The doorway is flanked by two windows and a large window above
Description: Title at top of drawing, from a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink over graphite. Damage with loss of text in upper right corner.
Date from J. Harris.
Watermark in center of sheet.
Part of a portfolio of drawings assembled by Horace Walpole under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760.
"Breadth of the window with [the] frame: 5: foot"--Note in Walpole's hand, in image.
"The shields must project in a ridge down the middle"--Note in Walpole's hand, lower right.
Formerly mounted on leaf 29 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: 1 drawing : sheet 31.4 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Design drawings
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: pencil and ink with wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Doors & doorways
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Entrance from the Road at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.