Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
On Windsor Terrace c.1760
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour | 9.2 x 13.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 914449
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A pen and ink and watercolour drawing showing a group of four men standing in conversation on the North Terrace, Windsor Castle, looking east. The figures are numbered below in pencil 3, 2, 1. Inscribed below on the modern mount, probably copied from an earlier one 'J. Isherwood, the brewer', 'J. Davis', 'the smith' and 'Cap. Archibald Campbell'. Mounted together with RCINs 914448 and 914450. Inscribed below on the modern mount, 'On Windsor Terrace / Paul Sandby'. The three drawings on this mount were exhibited at the Royal Academy (British Art), 1943, no. 594, where the inscriptions differed slightly. Isherwood, founder of the brewery in Datchet Lane died in 1772; his son Henry was MP for Windsor and died in 1797 (For representations of Isherwood's Brewery, see RCINs 914595 and 914394). The Davis family were general furnishers of ironwork to Windsor Castle from the seventeenth century onwards.Captain Archibald Campbell possibly refers to the distinguished officer (1739-1791) who served the Fraser Highlanders in North America from 1757 until 1779, when he returned and married the daughter of Allan Ramsay. By 1779 both Campbell and Isherwood would be too old for the figures in this drawing, but both men were probably known to Sandby.
Provenance
Probably from a volume of 134 figure studies acquired (£35) at the Paul Sandby estate sale, 1811
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
Measurements
9.2 x 13.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 14449