Design for a seat at Strawberry Hill [art original]

Description

Title: Design for a seat at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1754]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill?
Abstract: Two perspectives of the shell seat at Strawberry Hill: in the center a view from the front with a tree behind and to the right probably a view from the side, now torn. The seat stood at the end of a winding walk, on what was then called Wood Walk
Description: Title inscribed by the artist in ink below design.
Signed by the artist in ink lower right.
Watermark (partial) centered in lower edge.
Date based on a 1754 note of payment in Walpole's Accounts to William Robinson for making the shell seat.
Formerly mounted on leaf 33 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 20.1 x 25cm
Language: English

Genre: Design drawings British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: pen and brown ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Seating furniture
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Seating furniture
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design for a Seat at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.