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
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
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 whic...
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink in upper left corner.
A drawing showing the plan and elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note. Includes notes on heights and floorplan with rooms indicated in the artist's hand and ...
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Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink written on mount below drawing.
Unexecuted design for chimney-piece for Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 27 March 1755 Walpole wrote to Bentley, "Your chimney is come, but not to honour: The caryatides are fine an...
Description:
Title written in ink by Horace Walpole on mount below drawing.
A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus ...
A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus ...
Proposed design for the library at Strawberry Hill. The drawing was later mounted in Horace Walpole's portfolio of Bentley's drawings
Alternative Title:
First designs for the library at Strawberryhill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso with notes about elevations and dimensions in Horace Walpole's hand in ink. Title on mount also in Walpole's hand.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
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 drawin...
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the verso of the drawing.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
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 "ch...
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.
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.
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 chap...
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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Designs for the chapel tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. On the recto a wash drawing of the interior vaults with additions in pencil. On the verso a rough sketch of the floor plan
Description:
Title from mount in Horace Walpole's Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley [1760].
Designs for the chapel tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. On the recto a wash drawing of the interior vaults with additions in pencil. On the verso a rough sketch of the floor plan
Description:
Title from mount in Horace Walpole's Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley [1760].
On recto: One of three designs by Bentley for a Chinese buidling. This sketch shows the garden in front the proposed Chinese building. In the end of the designs were executed. On verso: a small pen sketch of a roof line
An unexecuted design for the palace of Richard Trevor (1707-1771), Bishop of Durham from 1752. Horace Walpole commented about the construction project on 19 October 1760, "St. Durham told my Lord Manchester, who is just come from Auckland, that he had...
A drawing of a design for the gateway with scale to Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil sketches of a floor plan and other notes and sketch
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at top right of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Elevation of flank of seven bays of pointed arches divided by thin buttresses, and elevation of end. This is probably the design for the cloister linking Bateman's house to this Gothic Octagon designed by Muntz. In a letter written to George Montagu ...
Alternative Title:
Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Subject (Name):
Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A drawing of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex. With additions in pencil above and below. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawin...
Alternative Title:
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at bottom of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing the gothic lantern that eventually hung "in the well of the staircase" according Horace Walpole's account in his 1774 Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole. Date of creation based on the appearance of the gothic lantern, as originally des...
Alternative Title:
Sir Horace Walpole's gothic lamp
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Unexecuted design for the town hall in Jersey, with scale. Bentley lived in Jersey between the years 1752 and 1756. On the verso, a small calculation in ink
Description:
Title written in ink by Horace Walpole below design.
A design for St. Hubert's Priory, a perspective with part plan showing piers of the tower. The steeple has been drawn on a separate piece of paper and mounted to the sheet with the main building, cut to line up with the roof line
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing.
Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill with extensive notes on the design and dimensions. The sketch includes a figure (Horace Walpole probably) reaching for a book on a shelf in the center alcove. The drawing was later part of the port...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing for a Gothic panel in ink and wash with additions in pencil and with a note in ink in the upper right in Bentley's hand, "The start of the centre to be taken as on this side, the other is wrong." Harris describes this and a related drawing as...
Drawing for a Gothic panel in pen and ink with wash and with additions in pencil. Harris describes this and a related drawing as "Designs for a Gothic chapel."
A design proposed for the monument to Roger Townshend in Westminster Abbey; sent in Horace Walpole's letter to the deceased's mother Lady Townshend, Friday 21 September 1759. In his letter he attributes the design to Richard Bentley and acknowledges ...
One of two drawings of an Gothic chimneypiece mounted on page 26. On the verso of this drawing is a pencil sketch of a man in profile showing the left portion of the coat and sleeve
One of two drawings of an Gothic chimneypiece mounted on page 26. On the verso of this drawing is a pencil sketch of a man in profile showing the left portion of the coat and sleeve
Drawing showing the elevation of a three-bay, Gothic-style house with a porch, battlement-style parapet, and two-bay arched windows in roof. On verso a square in ink with small extension of the lines in pencil
Drawing showing the elevation for the screen for the Holbein Chamber, the first room of the State Apartment in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England; with small details in pen and ink or graphite. On the verso, four small pencil sketc...
A pencil skteches of designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments; on the verso two sketches: the first, a Palladian house with five bays, attached to a church by a walk; and the second, a floor plan for a house[?].
Alternative Title:
Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk
