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].
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)
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)
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].
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].
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
