A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Alternative Title:
Road in Jersey
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of Bentley's drawings., Date based on other dated drawings of scenes in Jersey by Bentley., and Formerly mounted on the middle of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole in ink on mount., Date and artist from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley, Esq., 1754., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
