Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].

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Title: Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].
Alternative Title: Designs for the Gallery round tower, and chapel
Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: A drawing of the floor plan design for the gallery round tower in Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil additions and a note "a window to the dome".
Description: Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso.
Title from former curator: Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on creation date of album.
Watermark in center of sheet: IV.
Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 57 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: 1 drawing : sheet 37.8 x 22.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Design drawings
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: pen and ink and brown wash with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Galleries (Display spaces)
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Galleries (Display spaces)
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 the Gallery round tower, and chapel. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.