[Gothic lantern] [realia].

Description

Title: [Gothic lantern] [realia].
Alternative Title: Gothic lanthorn
Creator: Hallett, William, 1707-1781
Contributor: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, designer.
Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Published / Created: [approximately 1755]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A gothic lantern using colored, stained, and enamaled glass using15th and 16th century glass, set in an iron, lead, and painted tin frame. Designed by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole. Formerly located in the Entrance of Strawberry Hill
Description: Title from: Snodin, M. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill.
Text from 1774 and 1784 Horace Walpole's Description of the Villa: 4 [Entrance]: "In the well of the staircase, by a cord of black and yellow, hangs a gothic lanthorn of tin japanned, designed by Mr. Bentley, and filled with painted glass; the door of it has an old pane with the arms of Vere, earl of Oxford."
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A curious gothic lanthorn, fitted with very fine ancient stained glass.
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Provenance: Made for Horace Walpole by William Hallett, 1755, £2.14.0 (Accounts); 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 17, lot 112, bought by John Dent, Esq. £5.15.6. To W.S. Lewis from John Dent Brocklehurst, July 1935, for a £5 donation to a local charity.
Extent: 1 item : height 109.2 x width 35.6 x depth 37 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Furniture
Hall lanterns
Material: mixed materials ; and Colored, stained, and enameled glass set in an iron, lead, and painted tin frame
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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