<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Designs for a Gothic Columbarium at Strawb. Hill [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[1757]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing placement at the "door to parlour", "door to garden", and door to China room", "door to hall", and "door to hall" as well as the "chymney".</dc:description><dc:description>Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand at lower edge of drawing.</dc:description><dc:description>Date from Horace Walpole correspondence to Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... a new Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond and going to execute at Strawberry Hill."</dc:description><dc:description>With watermark along lower edge of paper, trimmed: IV</dc:description><dc:description>Formerly mounted on leaf 48 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>