Brown and black ink and wash over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 7/8 inches (47 x 63.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "A Prospect of Vapourland | The Batavia Plane Tree | The Dragon Tree | The Ficus Peoeides maximus canle Hibernica | foliis Linatis | The Rattan palm Tree | Lapis Andromorphites | The Gibbet Tree | Mount Lion | Phisic road | Calves-head hillock | the [Sky after Ploonius] | By Wm Bentley 1759"; in graphite lower center: "[...] | [...1844]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.188
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaves | dead | landscape | women | bats (animals) | rats | tent | birds | hills | Surrealist | men | animals | trees | snakes | lion | clouds
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-10-15 - 2010-01-03)Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010-03-06 - 2010-07-04)Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1979-03-28 - 1979-05-13)Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1979-06-05 - 1979-09-02)