Half length portrait, inclined left, looking front; in long curled wig, plain collar, doublet with slashed sleeves, badge on ribbon over right shoulder
Description:
Title from lettered state., Printmaker and artist from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; Birril sc., Proof before letters., Publication date from that of the volume in which the finished plate appeared., Proof state of a plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Probably after a painting of Sir Edward Walpole, grandfather of Sir Robert Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 85 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1621-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: a landscape with figures on horseback and the bard with attendants on a cliff on the upper left. On the verso, lower edge, a sketch of a head with a helmet in grey wash with swatch of wash background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., With watermark on top portion of sheet: L.V. Gerrevink., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image on leaf 11 referring to this and the image above on leaf 12: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards., and Formerly mounted on bottom half of leaf 12 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: in a landscape with a tree on the left and mountains in the distance (right), four men on horseback confront a bearded man who holds hold out his arm in defense while hiding his harp behind his back. In the right foreground, a figure of a child amongst the riders
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards., With watermark and countermark in center of sheet: L.V. Gerrevink and IV., and Formerly mounted (folded) on leaf 11 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: three bearded figures one of whom holds a harp (the bard).
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image on leaf 11 referring to this and the image below on leaf 12: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards., and Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 12 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
"Plate 29 [but numbered 30] to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Three elderly men, one holding a pipe, sit fast asleep, framed in an open casement window of the Globe inn. A date in a medallion, '161 - ', is above the window. Sketched at Torrington, a place 'supremely dull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides., Numbered 'Plate 29' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 78' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Inns: 'Globe' at Torrington -- Torrington: Globe Inn -- Architectural details: windows -- Sleeping., and First digit in number in upper left altered to either '3' or '6'.
Page 22A. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's note in pencil below image: First sketch, by Bentley., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the tailpiece to A long story., Written above in brown ink are nine lines of text, including the final two stanzas of the poem A long story., and Tipped in as page [22A] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 85 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 16 x 17.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
Title devised by curator., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 87 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 13.2 x 16.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 86 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.3 x 17 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
