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Recto: Panormaic View of Valencia

Drawing
1563 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panoramic view of Valencia, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Recto: Panormaic View of Valencia (published title)
  • Verso: Three Studies of Valencia, Its Harbour (El Grao) and the Lagoon (Albufera) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Recto: pen and brown ink, over black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: 'Panoramic View of Valencia', Verso: Three Studies of Valencia, Its Harbour (El Grao) and the Lagoon (Albufera), by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1563
NOT TO BE ISSUED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM PAINTINGS SECTION
Physical description
Panoramic view of Valencia, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
Dimensions
  • Height: 153mm (Note: H. 154 x W. 845 mm. Heavely creased Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017 )
  • Width: 845mm
On two sheets
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed with identifying names throughout the sheet, in brown ink (from left to right, top to bottom), grau / el remedio fraielles / p[uerta] del mar / p[uente] de Reael / mõt olivata/ water / (illegible) / p[uente] de la Trinidad / water / Do Berruges / Groe / gen / water / Carminy; and at lower left, in a later hand, in graphite, Valencia.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: with identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), grau / El Remedio / temple (crossed out) / asona / mar / nsta olinos / s hata... / Caza del Vispo / Colliere / Dome Senen / rosaVri / ..anor / albofera / (illegible) / ..mortu.. / Los teatines / herotalem / s franco / s Vincenco / p su mar / s Augustino / S Catalina ma... / s Vincenco / s augustino.
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. 601.5, illus. p.510-511.
Collection
Accession number
8455:5

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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