Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].

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Title: Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].
Alternative Title: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus in the center of a dome?
Description: Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso.
Alternative title from note on mount in Horace Walpole's hand: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden.
Artist from Walpole's note.
Date based on creation date of album.
Formerly mounted on leaf 25 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: 2 drawings on 1 sheet : image and sheet 15.1 x 21 cm, image 8.8 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings
Pencil works
Wash drawings
Material: ink and wash, pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hampden-Trevor, Robert, 1706-1783.
Subject (Topic): Butterflies
Picture frames
Subjects: Hampden-Trevor, Robert, 1706-1783
Butterflies
Picture frames
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design for a Frame for Butterflies by Mr. Bentley. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.