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Panoramic View of Zamora

Drawing
1570 (made), (made)
Artist/Maker
Anton Van Den Wyngaerde (artist)
Place of origin
Spain (drawn)

Panoramic view of Zamora in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitlePanoramic View of Zamora (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with blue wash.
Pen and Ink and Watercolour
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing, 'Panoramic view of Zamora', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, 1570
Physical description
Panoramic view of Zamora in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
Dimensions
  • Height: 302 mm
  • Width: 1405 mm
Style
Flemish School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed and dated at lower centre, in brown ink, Anto vanden Wyngerde / f @ • 1570.
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at the top left, çamora
  • at lower right centre, with a key arranged in three columns, whose corresponding letters and numbers are scattered throughout the sheet, (left column) A Iglesia mayor / B La Casa de Lobispo / C el Castyllo / D Santa marta / E Sant olyfonza (San Idelfonso) / F La madelena / G San Cibriaen P / H San Vincente P / I Casa del Conde dalva (de Alva) / K Sto franco / L San Symon / M Sta Clara / N San glaudyo (San Claudio) / O Santa Lucia; (centre column) P Sant andre / Q Las Duenias mo¯res / R Bellem beates / S Sano Leonardo / T Los hortos / V San mychyel / X San pablo/ Y San tome / Z Santo Benyto / 2 Sant antolin / 3 Sta maria nove / 4 San bernardo; (right column) 5 Sano giel / 6 Sano Salvador / 7 Sano desydero / 8 Sano Sosande / 9 Sano domyngo / 10 Sano marco / 11 p de donya oraça / 12 P de Santanna / 13 La Caza Sancta / 14 Sano bertolome / 15 el mercado / 16 (blank)
  • Further inscribed with identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), Camp de la Verdad / tyerra / Dueo Ryo / Los Vignios / San heronimo / Jardinos / ortos / Sacrestya / tyerra / Prta horcale / Pa Santyago / molynes / P S pablo / tyerra / Ortos / Camin … tora / noria.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: on the left hand side memoria de Çamora, and on the right hand side Çamora.
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
  • Góngora. La Estrella Inextinguible. Magnitud estética y universo contemporáneo, [Madrid] : AC/E, 2012. ISBN: 9 788415 282304.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol.II, Cat.601.1 illus. p.504-505.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:1

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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