On recto: One of three designs for a Chinese garden building. This drawing shows the elevation. None of the drawings were executed. On verso: a pencil sketches with figures
Alternative Title:
Triangular Chinese house designed for the Right Honorable Henry Fox
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Signed in lower right of design with Bentley's monogram: RB., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark upper left of sheet: partial crown., and Formerly mounted on leaf 22 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
On recto: One of three designs for a Chinese garden building. This drawing shows the elevation. None of the drawings were executed. On verso: a pencil sketches with figures
Alternative Title:
Triangular Chinese house designed for the Right Honorable Henry Fox
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Signed in lower right of design with Bentley's monogram: RB., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark upper left of sheet: partial crown., and Formerly mounted on leaf 22 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A design by Bentley of a landscape with upright hills on the right and left and in the middle distance, with a line of trees on the ridge in the middle distance and on the path through the hills in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Landscape with upright rocks
Description:
Title, artist, and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso. and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 5 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Alternative Title:
Road in Jersey
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of Bentley's drawings., Date based on other dated drawings of scenes in Jersey by Bentley., and Formerly mounted on the middle of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Design for a Gothic building Lord Strafford's castle Wentworth in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 1 September 1760 Walpole wrote to Montagu: " Lord Strafford has erected the little Gothic building which I got Mr. Bentley to draw; I took the idea from Chichester cross -- It stands on a high bank in the menagerie, between a pond and a vale, totally bowered over with oaks."
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink in upper left corner. and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole in ink on mount., Date and artist from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley, Esq., 1754., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing of an Gothic chimneypiece with mantel. On the verso of this drawing is a pencil sketch of chimneypiece with elevation noted
Alternative Title:
Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pair of stairs at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title inscribed above design., Artist and date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 27 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing of an Gothic chimneypiece with mantel. On the verso of this drawing is a pencil sketch of chimneypiece with elevation noted
Alternative Title:
Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pair of stairs at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title inscribed above design., Artist and date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 27 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Design with measurements of the chimneypiece for the Great Parlor in Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on mount., Date from Harris., and Formerly mounted on leaf 32 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
