[Sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

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Title: [Sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1758]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: On recto a drawing for a window in gray and brown wash. On verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail (2 x 3.5 cm).
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Notation below image in Horace Walpole's hand: Four feet.
Watermark (partial) lower edge, on the right (trimmed): D&C [Blauw].
Date from J. Harris.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 52 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: 2 drawings on 1 sheet : sheet 24 x 17 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Sketch for a Window in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.