A design by Bentley of a landscape with upright hills on the right and left and in the middle distance, with a line of trees on the ridge in the middle distance and on the path through the hills in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Landscape with upright rocks
Description:
Title, artist, and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso. and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 5 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Papers relating to World War II (in boxes 1-2) include copies of resistance propaganda, undated; letters and notes concerning the imprisonment of Cahun and Malherbe, 1943-1945 and undated; holograph memoir notes by Malherbe, undated; and a typescript memoir by Cahun and Malherbe, undated. and The Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe Papers consist of holograph and typescript writings by Cahun; memoirs, correspondence, and notes relating to their experiences during World War II; and a small amount of other correspondence and copies of photographs by Cahun.
Description:
Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, was a French photographer, artist, and author. Cahun was associated with the Surrealist movement, and her photography and writings addressed issues of gender identity. In 1937 she moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands with her partner Suzanne Malherbe, an illustrator who adopted the name Marcel Moore. Cahun and Malherbe were active in the resistance during the German occupation of Jersey during World War II. They were imprisoned and sentenced to death in 1944, but were liberated at the end of the war. and Formerly owned by Basil Bigg. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Name):
Bigg, Basil--Ownership and Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954
Subject (Topic):
Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Jersey
A view of the coastline from Bentley's home in Jersey, Channel Islands
Alternative Title:
View from Jersey 1753
Description:
Title from mount; titled, attributed, and dated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso. and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1761].
A design by Bentley of a landscape with a large house on a hill (left) high above the shore on a stormy night with waves and and trees blown by heavy winds. Lightning from the right stretches across the sky, striking the house. In the light showing between the tree on the right the number '58'.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 5 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A design by Bentley of landscape with falls in the lower right, a tree in the center, and a large rock formation to the left. A man sits by a rock (center); two figures (a woman and a child) walk from left to right carrying an urn and a bundle, respectively; another figure walks in silhouette in the distance (center).
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley Esq., 1753., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Title devised by curator., Artist and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Attributed to Bentley and dated by Horace Walpole on verso.