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Recto: Panoramic View of Cuenca

Drawing
1565 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Anton Van Den Wyngaerde (artist)
Place of origin
Spain (drawn)

Panoramic view of Cuenca in pen and ink. On reverse: another view of the same place. Formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. On four sheets.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Recto: Panoramic View of Cuenca (published title)
  • Verso: Panoramic View of Cuenca (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
Pen
Brown Ink
Black Chalk
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: 'Panoramic View of Cuenca', Verso: 'Panoramic View of Cuenca', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1565
Physical description
Panoramic view of Cuenca in pen and ink. On reverse: another view of the same place. Formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. On four sheets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 218mm (Note: H. 218 x W. 1249 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 1220mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: with identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), La merced / S lazara / (illegible) / Jucara / water / S. maria del puente / S Anto / molin / pavias / el puente de alcantara / S. Cristoffe / Castiello antiq. / S. Pedro / acq sta s Iago / hospitael / S Nicola / glesia magior / plaze / acede / terra / case del marqes de Cannietta / terra / Do¯ Bernardo carvellio / mur / hyer is een Lange strat geheete¯ La Callia de la Caratovia / el Relos de mangana / St m de gracia / S Domigo / La Vocara / cera de la Crucx / S. stenane / vingnas / vingnas / S franco / St Rocho / porta del campo / camino.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: at upper centre, Cuenca; and with identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), Jucar(?) fiuma / hospitael S Iago / S Cristoffel / S ma / … (crossed out) fi el ocora fiuma / La Callia de La Cararea / Camin per Aragon / condoto de fontes / S paulo / Reuallo / La Caza de la Crucx / porto del Campo / Cuenca (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. 601.16, illus. p.526-527.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:16

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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