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Panoramic View of Granada

Drawing
1567 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panoramic view of Granada in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On seven sheets, with a number of losses.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePanoramic View of Granada (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; the verso blackened for transfer.
Brief description
Drawing, 'Panoramic View of Granada', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1567
Physical description
Panoramic view of Granada in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On seven sheets, with a number of losses.
Dimensions
  • Height: 295mm (Note: H. 294 x W.1304 mm Measured by A.Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 1270mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, granado; at lower left, with two-column key, whose corresponding letters and numbers are scattered throughout the sheet, (left column) A hopitael del Rey / B Las catusses (La Cartusa) / C Sto alyfonza (S. Ildefonso) / D La merced / e Sto Crístoffel (S. Cristóbal) / f yna dambra / g Sto Andreas / h el albaysin donde estan los moriscos / i esta sona castellios che leania ellios carmes / K Sto mychiel / L Sto Iago parogia (Santiago) / m (blank) / n Casas del Sancto yncucision (Inquisition) / o Sto Josepho / P So Justo / Q Sto mateo / R Sto cruyx / S La incarnacion monges / T St anto el vechio / V St anna pa / X La Canseleria / Y Sto giel pa; (right column) 1 (blank) / 2 P[uerta] Sto Jeronimus / 3 Las alsayres (alixares) del Rey de moro(?) / 4 Los matyres / 5 La torra de aseta / 6 (blank) / 7 (blank); further inscribed with identifying names throughout the sheet, groen / groen / S Geronimo / groen / rosa / blau / groen / teyra / P de Viera / callio / S mychyel; and at centre right, in black chalk, S Sillia.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: at left, granade (turned 90° to the right); and at right, Granada (turned 90° to the right).
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. 601.9, illus. p.514-515.
Collection
Accession number
8455:9

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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