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Recto: Panoramic View of the Country Between Ubeda and Baeza

Drawing
c. 1564-7 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panoramic view of the country between Ubeda and Baeza in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On two sheets.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Recto: Panoramic View of the Country Between Ubeda and Baeza (published title)
  • Verso: (left) Sketch of Melilla on the Coast of Africa; (right) Sketch of the Castillo de Gibralfaro of Málaga (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: 'Panoramic View of the Country Between Ubeda and Baeza', Verso: '(left) Sketch of Melilla on the Coast of Africa; (right) Sketch of the Castillo de Gibralfaro of Málaga', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, c. 1564-7
Physical description
Panoramic view of the country between Ubeda and Baeza in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On two sheets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 205mm (Note: H. 211 x W. 1100 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 1096mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at upper left, VBEDA; and at upper right, BAYEZA; at upper right, with a key, whose corresponding letters are scattered throughout the sheet, A bayeza / B Vbeyda / c Jaen / d La macyola / e La Coral / f Belmar / g Joder ( Jódar) / H Cymena ( Jimena).
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: on extreme left portion of the sheet, patron de ubeda y baeza (turned 90° to the right); on central portion of the sheet, Salines / melilia; and on right portion of the sheet, por Burgo / el alcassana / Jubelalfar de malaga.
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. 601.11, illus. p.520-521.
Collection
Accession number
8455:11

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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