Design of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing six Gothic bays of shelving with quatrefoil designs above and a door on the right; statues and busts above the bays. Walpole has made notes on the verso of the drawing noting changes and dimensions
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the verso of the drawing., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., Sheet slightly irregular, trimmed in lower half of the right edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 36 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
Proposed design for the library at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham
Description:
Titles on verso and mount in Horace Walpole's hand in ink., Dated ca. 1754 in: Snodin, M. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven : Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 34., Dated ca. 1753 in: Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Gregg Press, [1971], page 26., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 37 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
A drawing of the Gothic lantern that hung in the hallway at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lanthorn at Strawberryhill, Lanthorn at Strawberry Hill, and Lantern at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing., Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mount: Lanthorn at Strawberryhill., Date based on Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montagu 11 June 1753 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 3, p. 164)., and Formerly mounted on leaf 31 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
On the recto, a drawing showing a Gothic steeple with a clock on a section of tile roof. On the verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail of a clock?
Alternative Title:
Design for Nich. Hardinge Esq. by R. Bentley 1753
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on mount below drawing. and Formerly mounted on leaf 40 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing of a Gothic bench (center) and to the left a Gothic chair with a detail to the right of a drain?
Alternative Title:
Designs for Gothic benches and chairs at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand in ink., Date based on a 27 July 1754 note to Bentley: "In the first place, my chairs! If you had taken a quarter of the time to draw what they might be, that you have employed to describe what they must not be, I might possibly have had some begun by this time. Would not one think that it was I who make charming drawings and designs and not you? I shall have very little satisfaction in them, if I am to invent them! ...", and Formerly mounted on leaf 44 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing placement at the "door to parlour", "door to garden", and door to China room", "door to hall", and "door to hall" as well as the "chymney".
Alternative Title:
Designs for a Gothic Columbarium at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand at lower edge of drawing., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence to Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... a new Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond and going to execute at Strawberry Hill.", With watermark along lower edge of paper, trimmed: IV, and Formerly mounted on leaf 48 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes in ink. On the verso, a crude pencil sketch
Description:
Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mount below drawing, Date from Horace Walpole correspondence to Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... a new Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond and going to execute at Strawberry Hill.", and Formerly mounted on leaf 47 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A drawing of the floor plan design for the gallery round tower in Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil additions and a note "a window to the dome".
Alternative Title:
Designs for the Gallery round tower, and chapel and Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso., Title from former curator: Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., and Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of a Chinese tea-house with scale of a room and extensive notes, possibly the building referenced in Horace Walpole's Description of the villa ..., designed and drawn by Mr. Bentley for the corner of the wood at Strawberry Hill, where the chapel was constructed ...
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower right below image: Rd. Bentley design., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 18 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A drawing showing the view of the entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, with detailed notes and measurements by the artist. The doorway is flanked by two windows and a large window above
Description:
Title at top of drawing, from a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink over graphite. Damage with loss of text in upper right corner., Date from J. Harris., Watermark in center of sheet., Part of a portfolio of drawings assembled by Horace Walpole under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., "Breadth of the window with [the] frame: 5: foot"--Note in Walpole's hand, in image., "The shields must project in a ridge down the middle"--Note in Walpole's hand, lower right., and Formerly mounted on leaf 29 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)