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Panoramic View of Seville and Triana

Drawing
1567 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panoramic view of Seville in pen and ink. Formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. On four sheets.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePanoramic View of Seville and Triana (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Brief description
Drawing, 'Panoramic View of Seville and Triana', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1567
Physical description
Panoramic view of Seville in pen and ink. Formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. On four sheets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 202mm (max) (Note: H. 204 X W. 1236 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 1225mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, voor Sto Franco heeft eene hof (courtyard) met seder boomen; and with identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), muras / Satorza / port / terra / Las Cuivas / groen / barcos 13 / Las casa de Colonas / … hoger / hout / mur / p de goles / el Carme / beginst de Sera morena (Sierra Morena) / des mueren gaen rechter / La merced / Caranelles / S Iago/ p s Juan(?) / S clara monge / S Lore¯za / bacas / bodegones / p …eana (crossed through) / S paublo / catea / p havna / La madalena / hout / hout / S pedro / Tonne¯ hout … hoop / S mares / oft S Salvador / S Catelina / henes de Cariola (crossed through) Carion / ora La Casa de snto Vista / S franco / plaza / groe / La porte Larrinael / weg.
Object history
Joannes Moflin (d.1586/7), Bergues; Dr Henry Wellesley (1791–1866), Oxford; his sale, London, Sotheby’s, 25 June 1866, 10th day, lots 1738–56: ‘ANTONIO VANDEN WYNGAERDE, 1558. The following Drawings were executed at the expense of the famous Printer, Plantin, of Antwerp. The English portion of the Collection is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, being part of the Illustrations to the “SUTHERLAND CLARENDON”’ (to ‘Holloway’ for £5. 0s. 0d);1 J.C. Robinson (1824–1913), London; by whom lent to the museum, 8 May 1879, and from whom purchased as part of a group of 301 items for a total of £6,800 in two instalments, 28 May 1879 and 15 April 1880.
Bibliographic references
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 601.18, illus. p. 530-531.
Collection
Accession number
8455:18

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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