Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
View of Windsor Castle from Mr Isherwood's Brewhouse in Datchet Lane c. 1770-1800
Pencil, pen, watercolour and bodycolour | 54.5 x 80.0 cm (sight) | RCIN 452667
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A watercolour and bodycolour drawing of a view of the north front of Windsor Castle, seen from Isherwood's Brewhouse on Datchet Lane. A courtyard of wood and brick stables and outbuildings. In the foreground, horses and carts with barrels, a man with a wheelbarrow and a woman with a bucket. Smoke is billowing from a chimney on the left. Signed 'P. Sandby' at lower right. Attached is a strip of paper cut from the mount or from an old frame, inscribed in ink in Paul Sandby's hand, 'View of Windsor Castle from Mr Isherwood Brewhouse in Datchet Lane'. In pencil, 2-D (?second day) and a collector's mark, Lugt 2836.
There are two versions of the same subject in the Royal Collection (RCINs 914595 and 914596). Another version was at Christie's, London, 17 November 2005, lot 46. A pencil drawing of the same subject is in the Staatliche Museen Greiz (E 505), and an etching was published by Sandby in 1780 (for example, British Museum 1904,0819.599). Another related drawing is in the British Museum (1904,0819.89).
The brewhouse in Datchet Lane was owned by the Isherwood family for much of the eighteenth century. The site was still in use as a brewery at the start of the twentieth century. The stables in the middle ground were replaced in 1799 by Travers' College; these buildings are now used by St George's School.Provenance
Royal Collection by 1868 (listed in an inventory of Windsor Castle, no. 2938)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil, pen, watercolour and bodycolour
Measurements
54.5 x 80.0 cm (sight)
74.6 x 100.3 cm (frame, external)
Object type(s)
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Other number(s)
RL 14597
