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Recto: Panoramic View of Játiva

Drawing
1563 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Anton Van Den Wyngaerde (artist)
Place of origin
Spain (drawn)

Panoramic view of Castillo de Chatina in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On three sheets.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Recto: Panoramic View of Játiva (published title)
  • Verso: (left) Panoramic View of Chincilla de Monte Aragón; (centre) Almansa; and (right) The House and Gardens of the Governor of Valencia Outside of Valencia (published title)
Materials and techniques
Recto: pen and brown ink, over black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink.
Pen
Brown Ink
Black Chalk
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: 'Panoramic View of Játiva', Verso: '(left) Panoramic View of Chincilla de Monte Aragón; (centre) Almansa; and (right) The House and Gardens of the Governor of Valencia Outside of Valencia', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1563
Physical description
Panoramic view of Castillo de Chatina in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On three sheets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 216mm (Note: H. 219 x W. 744 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 738mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, Castiellio de Chatina; and throughout the sheet with identifying names (from left to right, top to bottom), S. onofro / Arerca pinada(?) / steenrotsen / mo¯to sancto monzes / S philippo / S Barbara / Belveder / S anna / maect Logar in Valencia / Nro Sor del Rochozzo Augustini / hyer Wert onthalst de broder van my móteza / Dezen tooren in van den blyf … van afgeslagen deur 46 tonnekens poyers in / … van San siellio / Chatina en San Ciellea (turned 90° to the right).
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: at upper center, San Siellio Logar in Castiellia; and throughout the sheet with identifying names (from left to right, top to bottom), S. Domı ¯go / wech naer den Borch / wech / gro¯o¯ / plaze / borch Castellio / S Barbara / wech / steano / plaze / el glesia magior / al husen / rotsen / al neer Vallendon / ronden toren / puente(?) / rotsen / rotsen; on second section from the right (turned 90° to the right), A monza premier Logar in Castiellio; and on far right-hand section of the sheet (also turned 90° to the right), Desen hof buten Valencia by S. Vincens hoort toe Don Jeronimos Cananellos en is Lanck 150 passen en 16 vier… en Breet / water / water / canalerizo / water / ‘t huys van den hof parador …aerswerk / deel hof vol boomen fonten.
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. 601.12, illus. p.522-523.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:12

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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