[Frontispiece to Walpole's Fugitive pieces] [art original]

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Title: [Frontispiece to Walpole's Fugitive pieces] [art original]
Creator: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1758?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title and date supplied by curator.
Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet.
Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's copy of his Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 167, to Thorpe; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13350; Sotheby's, 24 April 1860 (John Mitford Sale), lot 3677, to Elkins. Later in the collection of Horatio William, 4th Earl of Orford, with his seal in the volume; inherited from him by Mrs. Colin Davy of Heckfield Place. Sold at Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, to Quaritch for The Lewis Walpole Library.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 17.2 x 10.1 cm, mounted to 18.1 x 11.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Ink drawings
Material: pen and ink with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horatio William, Earl of Orford, 1813-1894 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bentley, Frontispiece to Walpole's Fugitive Pieces. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.