[Design for a bed with canopy] [art original].

Description

Title: [Design for a bed with canopy] [art original].
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1753 or 1754]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A design for a canopy bed
Description: Title devised by curator.
Formerly mounted on leaf 15 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 12.3 x 17 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pencil, wash and ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Canopy beds
Design drawings
Subjects: Canopy beds
Design drawings
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Design for a Bed with Canopy. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.