Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
View from the Lower End of Sheet Street of Windsor Town and Castle c. 1785
Pencil and watercolour | 30.8 x 45.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 914608
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A watercolour drawing of Windsor Castle and Town, seen from the lower end of Sheet Street. The Round Tower and the south of the Castle are visible on the horizon. In the foreground, a road leading towards the centre, lined with houses and trees. A large tree on the left, and a slightly smaller one on the right. On the far right, a yellow carriage is being painted; 'Windsor' and a monogram on its passenger door. A man with a tambourine and small guitar, accompanied by a woman and child, has stopped to talk to a workman in a red cap. A man at the centre is loading a donkey, next to two scampering dogs. The outlines of two figures behind the dogs very faintly drawn. Inscribed in pencil, lower left, 'View of the Castle from [illegible]'. The sheet is mounted on a yellow and grey wash line bordered mount, of a type associated with drawings from the Paul Sandby estate sale in 1811. The mount is lettered below, 'View from the Lower End of Sheet Street of Windsor Town and Castle'. Inscribed in pencil in a later hand, 'The scite of the New Barrack', and in another hand, 'about the year 1775', the second 7 written over an 8.
A pencil drawing of the same subject is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 914607), and other views are 453597 and 453780. Two other views of the same subject formerly belonged to the Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux and were in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1876 sale, lots 30 and 36). The Barracks in Sheet Street were erected in 1795.Provenance
Probably Paul Sandby estate sale (Christie's, 2 May 1811); Royal Collection by 1910
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
30.8 x 45.9 cm (sheet of paper)
40.1 x 55.5 cm (mount)
Object type(s)
Other number(s)
RL 14608