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1. A triangular Chinese house design'd for the Rt. Honble. Henry Fox at Holland House [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 22 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pagodas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A triangular Chinese house design'd for the Rt. Honble. Henry Fox at Holland House [art original]

2. A triangular Chinese house design'd for the Rt. Honble. Henry Fox at Holland House [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 22 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pagodas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A triangular Chinese house design'd for the Rt. Honble. Henry Fox at Holland House [art original]

3. Building in Lord Strafford's menagerie at Wentwork Castle Yorkshire by Mr. Bentley 1756 [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not before 1756]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 45 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Wentworth Castle (England)
Subject (Topic):: Architectural follies and Zoos
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Building in Lord Strafford's menagerie at Wentwork Castle Yorkshire by Mr. Bentley 1756 [art original].

4. Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pr of stairs at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 27a Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pr of stairs at Strawberry Hill [art original].

5. Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pr of stairs at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 27a Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Chimney in the blue-bedroom one pr of stairs at Strawberry Hill [art original].

6. Chimneypiece in the refectory or great parlor at Strawberry Hill [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1754?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 32 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Chimneypiece in the refectory or great parlor at Strawberry Hill [art original]

7. Design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 53 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 note at the bottom of the drawing, "... where the pricked line is: must be thrown a strong arch, to Support the Angle made betweem the two tow'rs."
Alternative Title:: 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., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 53 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Geographic):: Hertfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):: Seabright, Thomas Saunders, -1761.
Subject (Topic):: Estates and Farmhouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire [art original].

8. Design for a chimney in the style of architecture in the reign of James the First [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1755]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 42 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 and free, but the rest is heavy: Lord Strafford is not at all struck with it, and thinks it old-fashioned. It certainly tastes of Indigo Jones. Your myrtles I have seen in their pots, and they are magnificent, but I fear very sickly."
Description:: Title written in ink by Horace Walpole on mount below drawing., Partial watermark on the right edge, trimmed., and Formerly mounted on leaf 42 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for a chimney in the style of architecture in the reign of James the First [art original].

9. Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 25 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 in the center of a dome?
Alternative Title:: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso., Alternative title from note on mount in Horace Walpole's hand: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden., Artist from Walpole's note., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 25 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):: Hampden-Trevor, Robert, 1706-1783.
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies and Picture frames
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].

10. Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 25 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 in the center of a dome?
Alternative Title:: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso., Alternative title from note on mount in Horace Walpole's hand: Frame for butterflies for Mr. Trevor Hampden., Artist from Walpole's note., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 25 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):: Hampden-Trevor, Robert, 1706-1783.
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies and Picture frames
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for a frame for butterflies by Mr. Bentley [art original].

11. Design for the end of the library at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 37b Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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., Date from J. Harris., and Formerly mounted on the lower 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)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the end of the library at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

12. Design for the library at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 36 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the library at Strawberry Hill [art original].

13. Design for the library at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1753 or 1754]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 37a Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the library at Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

14. Design of a fictitious steeple for Nich. Hardinge Esq. of Kingston [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 40 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Topic):: Clocks & watches and Steeples
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Design of a fictitious steeple for Nich. Hardinge Esq. of Kingston [art original].

15. Designs for a Gothic Columbarium at Strawb. Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 48 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Columbaria
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Designs for a Gothic Columbarium at Strawb. Hill [art original].

16. Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 57v Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Galleries (Display spaces)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Designs for the Gallery round tower, & chapel [art original].

17. Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, with notes

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 18 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Teahouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, with notes

18. Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]. [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1758]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 29 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Doors & doorways
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill N.B. There is a rose window added under the battlemen[t]. [art original]

19. First idea for the Chapel Tribune at Strawberry Hill but rejected tho beautifull, because it must have been too large or too small [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 58 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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]. and Date from: 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.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Chapels and Floor plans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > First idea for the Chapel Tribune at Strawberry Hill but rejected tho beautifull, because it must have been too large or too small [art original].

20. First idea for the Chapel Tribune at Strawberry Hill but rejected tho beautifull, because it must have been too large or too small [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 58 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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]. and Date from: 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.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Chapels and Floor plans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > First idea for the Chapel Tribune at Strawberry Hill but rejected tho beautifull, because it must have been too large or too small [art original].

21. Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 23a Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Description:: Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Subject (Name):: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pagodas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House [art original].

22. Gateway designed for Dr. Trevor, Bishop of Durham [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 21 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 laid out sixteen hundred pounds there, and has now a hundred men at work a day." The gateway that was finally built for the Bishop was designed by Sir Thomas Robinson. See J. Harris
Description:: Title inscribed by artist at bottom of sheet., Watermark in center of sheet., and Formerly mounted on leaf 21 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):: Trevor, Richard, 1707-1771.
Subject (Topic):: Castles & palaces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gateway designed for Dr. Trevor, Bishop of Durham [art original].

23. Gateway for Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 57r Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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., Formerly mounted on leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Gates
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gateway for Strawberry Hill by Mr. Bentley [art original].

24. Gothic cloyster designed by Mr. Bentley [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [ca. 1762]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585c no. 2++ (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 on 24 September 1762, Horace Walpole refers to Bentley's design for Bateman's cloister; also associated with Walpole's Strawberry Hill. See Harris
Alternative Title:: Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner below design., Date based on correspondence between Montague and Walpole in which this design is discussed., and Watermark: [...] C. Blauw.
Subject (Name):: Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gothic cloyster designed by Mr. Bentley [art original]

25. Ground plan of the Chinese building for Holland House [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 23b Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: One of three designs for a Chinese garden buildling; this one showing the floor plan. None of the designs were executed
Description:: Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on lower half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Floor plans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ground plan of the Chinese building for Holland House [art original].

26. Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758 or 1759?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 55r Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 drawings
Alternative Title:: Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at bottom of sheet., Formerly mounted on leaf 55 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date from J. Harris.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Screens
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill [art original].

27. Sketch of the gallery at Strawberryhill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1759]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 56 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Design for the gallery at Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. The design was not executed
Alternative Title:: Sketch of the gallery at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on mount., Date from: Snodin, M. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill., and Formerly mounted on leaf 56 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Galleries (Display spaces)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sketch of the gallery at Strawberryhill [art original].

28. Sketches for the windows in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 51v Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On recto an elevation drawing in gray and brown wash. On verso, preliminary pencil studies for the windows
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing., Watermark (partial) lower left edge., Date from J. Harris., and Formerly mounted on leaf 51 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sketches for the windows in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill [art original].

29. Sketches for the windows in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 51v Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On recto an elevation drawing in gray and brown wash. On verso, preliminary pencil studies for the windows
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing., Watermark (partial) lower left edge., Date from J. Harris., and Formerly mounted on leaf 51 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sketches for the windows in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill [art original].

30. The cohüe or town house at St. Helier in Jersey designed by Richd. Bentley 1755 [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1752 and 1756]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 41 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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. and Formerly mounted on leaf 41 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Geographic):: Jersey.
Subject (Topic):: City & town halls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The cohüe or town house at St. Helier in Jersey designed by Richd. Bentley 1755 [art original].

31. The priory of St. Hubert, a farm belonging to the Countess of Suffolk at Marble-Hill near Twickenham [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1750?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 51r Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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., Date from J. Harris., With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink below title: N.B. This was built, but pulled down after her death., With a watermark (partial) in center of sheet., and Formerly mounted on leaf 51 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):: Marble Hill House (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Convents
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The priory of St. Hubert, a farm belonging to the Countess of Suffolk at Marble-Hill near Twickenham [art original].

32. Tomb at Linton in Kent [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 50 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A design for the tomb of Galfridus Mann of Boughton Malherbe in Kent, brother of Sir Horace Mann, with elevation and details
Description:: Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing., Epitaph on tomb and notes below image are in Latin., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence with Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... that columbarium at Linton is to have a beautiful urn designed by Mr. Bentley as the whole is, with this plain, very true inscription, Galfredo Mann, amicissimo optimo, qui obit--H.W.P.", With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink bottom of image: Qui obit Dec 20. 1756 status sud 50 Horatius Walpole posuit., and Formerly mounted on leaf 50 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Geographic):: Kent (England)
Subject (Topic):: Buildings, structures, etc, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Urns
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tomb at Linton in Kent [art original].

33. [Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 38 Box 3
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 portfolio entitled by Horace Walpole Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley
Description:: Title devised by curator., Date from Harris., Extensive notes, including price estimates, by Bentley surrounding drawing and signed by Bentley with his monogram., and Formerly mounted on leaf 38 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):: Private libraries and Libraries (Rooms)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Alternative design for the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

34. [Design for Gothic panelling, partially drawn] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 57
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 "Designs for a Gothic chapel."
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark, centered in sheet: Fleur-de-lis., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Paneling
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for Gothic panelling, partially drawn] [art original].

35. [Design for Gothic panelling] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 58
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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."
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark, centered in sheet., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Paneling
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for Gothic panelling] [art original].

36. [Design for Roger Townshend's monument] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [September 1759]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585c no. 1
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 authorship of the epitaph: "To the memory of Roger Townshend her youngest son slain in the service of his country at ... 1759, Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend dedicates this marble. Lov'd Son, adieu! Tho' from a Mother's eyes fond tears you call, She thanks you, that without a blush they fall. Lady Townshend did not use this design but instead a design by Robert Adam
Alternative Title:: To the memory of Roger Townshend
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: GR., and For transcription of the letter along with a reproduction of the image, see: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 40, p. 166-67.
Subject (Name):: Townshend, Roger, Sir, -1493., Townshend, Ethelreda Harrison, Viscountess, 1708?-1788., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Monuments & memorials
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for Roger Townshend's monument] [art original].

37. [Design for a Gothic bed with canopy] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 59
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing for a Gothic canopy bed with a canopy above
Description:: Title devised by curator., With watermark partial, center right edge: fleur-de-lis., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Canopy beds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic bed with canopy] [art original].

38. [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 26a Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Alternative Title:: Design for a Gothic chimneypiece
Description:: Title from curator., Artist and date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 26 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].

39. [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 26a Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Alternative Title:: Design for a Gothic chimneypiece
Description:: Title from curator., Artist and date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 26 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [art original].

40. [Design for a Gothic structure, a bed] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 66
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing for a canopy for a bed, probably showing the head board
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: Pro patria., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Furniture, Gothic and Canopy beds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic structure, a bed] [art original].

41. [Design for a canopy for a bed] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 60
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing in pen and ink with wash for a canopy for a bed with measurements noted in pencil at the bottom of sheet in Horace Walpole's hand
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: Pro patria., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Canopy beds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a canopy for a bed] [art original].

42. [Design for a three bay Gothic house] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 61
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Dwellings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a three bay Gothic house] [art original].

43. [Design for a three-light Gothic window] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 62
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing in pencil of a Gothic window for an unidentified project. Possibly associated with the drawings described by Harris
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of left edge: GR., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a three-light Gothic window] [art original].

44. [Design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 65
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 sketches of windows
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Subject (Topic):: Screens
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

45. [Elevation for a Gothic entrance of three bays, with rose window] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 16 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a Gothic entrance of three bays, with a rose window above the center bay, with numbers below pillars. On verso, light pencil sketch of a building?
Description:: Title devised by curator., Signed in lower right below image: Rd. Bentley. Also signed with Bentley's monogram in lower left corner of image: RB., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 16 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation for a Gothic entrance of three bays, with rose window] [art original]

46. [Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, close-up] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 19 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a Chinese tea-house in ink with another smaller sketch in pencil on right side of sheet. 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 desig., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 19 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Teahouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a Chinese tea-house, close-up] [art original]

47. [Elevation of a Chinese tea-house] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 17 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a Chinese tea-house with a scale of a room, 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., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark top center of sheet: Fleur-de-lis., and Formerly mounted on leaf 17 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Teahouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a Chinese tea-house] [art original]

48. [Elevation of a Palladian palazzo] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1757?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 20 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Possibly a design for a new home for His Royal Highness the Duke to replace his Great Lodge in Windsor Great Park. See J. Harris
Description:: Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., Signed in lower right with Bentley's monogram: RB., and Formerly mounted on leaf 20 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Castles & palaces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a Palladian palazzo] [art original]

49. [Elevation of a round temple with Pantheon roof] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 28 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Designs for a classical temple with a part plan and elevation on recto and on the verso, a cross section or half elevation and part section
Description:: Title and date from Harris., Signed by the artist on recto, lower left below image., Watermark centered on lower edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 28 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Temples
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a round temple with Pantheon roof] [art original]

50. [Elevation of a round temple with Pantheon roof] [art original]

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1758 and 1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 28 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Designs for a classical temple with a part plan and elevation on recto and on the verso, a cross section or half elevation and part section
Description:: Title and date from Harris., Signed by the artist on recto, lower left below image., Watermark centered on lower edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 28 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):: Temples
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a round temple with Pantheon roof] [art original]

51. [Elevation of the columbarium at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 49 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: One of a series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; this drawing with scale and images of statuary and vases
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., 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 a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink in lower right: N.B. There is an error in this drawing. The radius of the bow, wanting near a foot. The Ichnog will correct it., With watermark along lower edge of paper, trimmed: D and C Blauw., and Formerly mounted on leaf 49 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Columbaria
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of the columbarium at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

52. [Heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 7 Box 1
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A drawing by Bentley of a diamond-shaped heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast set within a Gothic arch
Description:: Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on album in which this drawing was mounted., and Formerly mounted on leaf 7 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Coats of arms and Supernatural beings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Heraldic design for Strawberry Hill with mythical beast] [art original].

53. [Plan for two bays of the Great Cloister] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 56
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a plan for one pier for the Great Cloister at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex; with extensive notes on the design and measurements. An incomplete pencil sketch on verso. Harris notes: "It is difficult to relate this drawing to the Great Cloister. It may be for Bateman's cloister at Old Windsor."
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Part of a watermark at top of sheet, centered., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760]., and Harris dates these drawings tentatively between 1757-1760.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Cloisters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Plan for two bays of the Great Cloister] [art original].

54. [Preliminary elevation of the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758 or 1759?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 55v Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A preliminary drawing showing the elevation of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with brattishing over the door added in pencil. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawings
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 55 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date from J. Harris.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Screens
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Preliminary elevation of the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill] [art original].

55. [Section of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, with sketches of the vaulting] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 64
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a section with half-wall plan of the Tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex; with two small sketches of details also in ink but with some additions in graphite
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Watermark in center of sheet: Fleur de lis., and One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Vaults (Architecture)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Section of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, with sketches of the vaulting] [art original].

56. [Section of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585b leaf 63
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a section with half-wall plan for the Tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Watermark in center of sheet: GR with crown., and One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Section of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

57. [Side elevation of a design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1760]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 54 Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A drawing showing the side elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note on the other drawing included in the album for this project
Alternative Title:: Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark (partial) left edge, in the middle of the sheet: top of crest., and Formerly mounted on leaf 54 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Geographic):: Hertfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):: Seabright, Thomas Saunders, -1761.
Subject (Topic):: Estates and Farmhouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Side elevation of a design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire] [art original].

58. [Sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 52a Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On recto a drawing for a window in gray and brown wash. On verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail (2 x 3.5 cm).
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Notation below image in Horace Walpole's hand: Four feet., Watermark (partial) lower edge, on the right (trimmed): D&C [Blauw]., Date from J. Harris., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 52 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

59. [Small sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1758]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 52b Box 4
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A drawing for a window in gray and brown wash
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Date from J. Harris., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 52 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)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Small sketch for a window in the Holbein chamber at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

60. Gate for the flower garden [art original]

Creator:: Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1776]
Call Number:: 49 2523
Collection Title:: Page 121.13. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title and statement of responsibility from notes in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 121.13 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Gates
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gate for the flower garden [art original]

61. [Sketches for Round Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:: Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1797]
Call Number:: 49 2523
Collection Title:: Page 121.8. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to John Chute from local card catalog record., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., Two drawings on separate sheets, mounted together one above the other., Annotations accompany the vignettes in the drawings, with "circular room 12 feet high" written in pencil across top of uppermost drawing. Also in the upper drawing, "eight stools" is written in ink next to a circular design, and the notes "fret work inside of roof" and "low head boards pierced ..." are written next to two small depictions of a chimneypiece. In the lower drawing, the notes "flat & square" and "balustrade 2 f. 1/2 high" are written next to a patterned design., Several additional sketches of architectural details, in pen and ink and pencil, are present on the verso of the sheet mounted at top., and Mounted on page 121.8 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketches for Round Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

62. [Stairway and armor] [art original]

Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853
Published / Created:: [180-?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3678.16+ (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Elevation drawing of the stairway at Strawberry Hill, with the suit of armor of Francis II in niche at the top
Alternative Title:: Elevation of the hall with Francis II armor
Description:: Title and tentative date supplied by curator., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and George Perfect Harding (1780-1853), British miniature painter.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Armor, and Stairways
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Stairway and armor] [art original]

63. Plan of the church at Croome [art original].

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 13 Box D135
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Scaled and measured drawing of the church at Croome
Description:: Title from text inscribed below image: Plan of the church at Croome.
Subject (Topic):: Churches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Plan of the church at Croome [art original].

64. [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [Alternative design for a Gothic chimney-piece]. [art original]

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 10 Box D135
Image Count:: 2
Abstract:: Two designs for chimneypieces; one is on the sheet's recto and the other on the verso
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):: Chimneypieces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for a Gothic chimney-piece] [Alternative design for a Gothic chimney-piece]. [art original]

65. [Designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments] [Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk]. [art original]

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 8 Box D135
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):: Ceilings, Houses, and Quatrefoils
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments] [Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk]. [art original]

66. [Detail of a cornice] [art original].

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 9 Box D135
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: An ink drawing with some pencil, of a design for a captial with decorated with ancanthi leaves
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and Written below design in an unidentified hand: "At Ed. Egremounts Library in Pickadilly, plaister cornice under [the] cove."
Subject (Topic):: Acanthi, Capitals (Columns), and Cornices
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Detail of a cornice] [art original].

67. [Elevation of a Gothic quatrefoil fence and gate] [Sketch of an otter swimming from a lake]. [art original]

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 6 Box D135
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: An ink and wash drawing of a design for a fence and gate; sheet torn on the left side. On the verso an ink sketch of an otter in the water
Alternative Title:: Sketch of an otter swimming from a lake
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., "Gate" written below design in an unidentified hand., and Sheet torn with loss of partial loss of the design.
Subject (Topic):: Fences, Gates, and Quatrefoils
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a Gothic quatrefoil fence and gate] [Sketch of an otter swimming from a lake]. [art original]

68. [Elevation of a Gothic structure] [art original].

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 11 Box D135
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Drawing of an elevation of a Gothic structure (a book-case or greenhouse?) of four bays of three lights
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):: Bookcases and Greenhouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Elevation of a Gothic structure] [art original].

69. [Section of the church and chancel at Croome] [art original].

Creator:: Miller, Sanderson, 1716-1780, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1780]
Call Number:: Drawings M647 no. 12 Box D135
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Structural drawing of the church and chancel at Croome, in black in with scale and some additions in purple ink. Square section in upper left corner cut out
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and Inscribed at top of page: "Section of [the] Church and Chancel for Ld. Coventry at Croome, Worchestershire."
Subject (Topic):: Churches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Section of the church and chancel at Croome] [art original].

70. Sir Horrise Walpoles gothick lamp [art original].

Published / Created:: [not before 1756]
Call Number:: SH Contents Un58 no. 1 Box 115
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 designed by Richard Bentley ca. 1755 before Walpole added colored and stained glass to the lower panes
Alternative Title:: Sir Horace Walpole's gothic lamp
Description:: Title from item., Unsigned and undated drawing., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Art collections and Lamps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Horrise Walpoles gothick lamp [art original].

71. [Doorway with landscape mural in the transom] [art original].

Published / Created:: [between 1750 and 1797?]
Call Number:: SH Contents Un58 no. 9 Box 115
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of a doorway with a landscape painting in the transom. The walls on either side are decorated with vines with leaves and red blossoms
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Doors & doorways
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Doorway with landscape mural in the transom] [art original].