Cave of Care in Spenser [art original]

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Title: Cave of Care in Spenser [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1754]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill?
Abstract: A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Description: Title from caption written by Horace Walpole in ink on mount.
Date and artist from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley, Esq., 1754.
Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 4 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 : sheet 11.0 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illlustrations
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pencil ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 > Illustrations
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Cave of Care in Spenser. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.