[Heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast] [art original].

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Lewis Walpole Library > [Heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast] [art original].

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Title: [Heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast] [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: A drawing by Bentley of a diamond-shaped heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast set within a Gothic arch
Description: Title devised by curator.
Date and attribution based on album in which this drawing was mounted.
Formerly mounted on leaf 7 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 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 and sheet 14 x 10.7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Design drawings
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Supernatural beings
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Coats of arms
Supernatural beings
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Heraldic Design for Strawberry Hill with Mythical Beast. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.