Designs for Gothic benches & chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

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Title: Designs for Gothic benches & chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].
Alternative Title: Designs for Gothic benches and chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1754]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: A drawing of a Gothic bench (center) and to the left a Gothic chair with a detail to the right of a drain?
Description: Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand in ink.
Date based on a 27 July 1754 note to Bentley: "In the first place, my chairs! If you had taken a quarter of the time to draw what they might be, that you have employed to describe what they must not be, I might possibly have had some begun by this time. Would not one think that it was I who make charming drawings and designs and not you? I shall have very little satisfaction in them, if I am to invent them! ..."
Formerly mounted on leaf 44 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 : image and sheet 16.3 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: grey wash with pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Benches
Chairs
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Benches
Chairs
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Designs for Gothic Benches & Chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.