Subject (Name): Trevor, Richard, 1707-1771. - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [1760?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3585 leaf 21 Box 2
Collection Title:: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An unexecuted design for the palace of Richard Trevor (1707-1771), Bishop of Durham from 1752. Horace Walpole commented about the construction project on 19 October 1760, "St. Durham told my Lord Manchester, who is just come from Auckland, that he had laid out sixteen hundred pounds there, and has now a hundred men at work a day." The gateway that was finally built for the Bishop was designed by Sir Thomas Robinson. See J. Harris
Description:: Title inscribed by artist at bottom of sheet., Watermark in center of sheet., and Formerly mounted on leaf 21 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):: Trevor, Richard, 1707-1771.
Subject (Topic):: Castles & palaces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gateway designed for Dr. Trevor, Bishop of Durham [art original].