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55. 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].

56. 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]

57. 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].

58. [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].

59. 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].

60. [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]

61. 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].

62. 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].

63. 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].