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Artists›Richard Bentley, British

Richard Bentley, British

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Artworks (23)

Double Portrait: Two Women

1840 · Oil on canvas

91.2 × 65.8 cm (35 7/8 × 25 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.4 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A Long Story

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.3 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.4 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.2 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hymn to Adversity

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.4 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on the Spring

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.3 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hymn to Adversity

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.4 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on the Spring

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Title Page

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem ‘A Long Story’

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.2 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.’

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.4 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.3 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem ‘Hymn to Adversity’

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.1 × 26.3 cm (14 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A Long Story

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.2 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Epitaph

1753 · Letterpress and etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.4 × 26.5 cm (14 3/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.

1753

H x W x D: 38.4 × 27.5 × 2.2 cm (15 1/8 × 10 13/16 × 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring'

1753 · Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Fashionable Figures, with a Man in Turkish Costume

1733 · Oil on plaster, mounted on aluminum honeycomb panel

81.6 × 168.3 cm (32 1/8 × 66 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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23 published of 23 catalogued · 23 with image

Smithsonian
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Art Institute Chicago
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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