FDA-D.472-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.472-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Windsor Castle, North Terrace looking West at Sunset
North Terrace, Windsor Castle
North Terrace, Windsor Castle
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other name
Other name
Comments
A pair with the view 'looking eastward', also in its original frame. Sandby painted far more versions of the westerly view at sunset, often with quite lurid colours as here. The buildings on the left include the west end of Queen Elizabeth's Gallery (now the Royal Library), Winchester Tower silhouetted, and the canons' houses in the distance. The several groups of figures at various points on the terrace, include a soldier in uniform, asleep on a bench with a dog beside him - possibly the same soldier seen sitting on the parapet in the companion view.
It has been suggested that the sky has been considerably retouched.
It has been suggested that the sky has been considerably retouched.
Other number
CL 29
Description
Content (place)
Windsor Castle
Dimensions
height (sight size): 440mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 600mm
width (frame): 780mm
depth (frame): 65mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 600mm
width (frame): 780mm
depth (frame): 65mm
Materials & techniques note
Bodycolour over graphite on paper
Physical description
Original carved gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Sandby, Paul, c.1731 - 1809 (Artist)
Date
1765-1770
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Miss F.A.C. Biddulph; by whom bequeathed to Eton College in 1948
Exhibited: 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
Exhibited: 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
References
• Dorment, R., British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1986 (p.361, related work no.2)
