Turkish bath [art original]

Description

Title: Turkish bath [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing showing the interior of a Turkish bath with a woman in the pool in the foreground, another seated smoking a long pipe on cushions in an alcove, center back, and a black woman, clothed and standing on the right holding a stick and towel as she looks at the woman in the pool. Behind her is a figure in the process of tying a towel around her head
Description: Title inscribed below design.
Signed in lower left of design with Bentley's monogram: RB.
With Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: A Turkish bath by Mr. Bentley.
Date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on leaf 24 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 : image 27.6 x 23.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 27.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and wash on thick laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Baths, Turkish
Blacks
Interiors
Public baths
Pipes (Smoking)
Women
Subjects: Baths, Turkish
Blacks
Interiors
Public baths
Pipes (Smoking)
Women
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Richard Bentley, Turkish Bath. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.