Design of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing six Gothic bays of shelving with quatrefoil designs above and a door on the right; statues and busts above the bays. Walpole has made notes on the verso of the drawing noting changes and dimensions
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the verso of the drawing., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., Sheet slightly irregular, trimmed in lower half of the right edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 36 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
Proposed design for the library at Strawberry Hill. 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)
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].
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].
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].
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].
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].
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].
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].
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].