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Recto: The Roman Amphitheatre at Itálica near Seville

Drawing
c. 1567 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Anton Van Den Wyngaerde (artist)
Place of origin
Spain (drawn)

View of the remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Seville in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Recto: The Roman Amphitheatre at Itálica near Seville (published title)
  • Verso: Slight Sketches of the Towers of Seville with Various Notes (published title)
Materials and techniques
Recto: pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink.
Pen
Brown Ink
Black Chalk
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: 'The Roman Amphitheatre at Itálica near Seville', Verso: 'Slight Sketches of the Towers of Seville with Various Notes', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, c. 1567
Physical description
View of the remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Seville in pen and ink, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
Dimensions
  • Height: 105mm (Note: H. 107 x W. 298 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 299mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed (?) or inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, A.W. Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, Coliseo de Sebilia La Vechio al Redador tyene 506 – passes; at upper right, algavia; at far centre right, gualdalcavil Ryo; and at lower left, el Colisio.
  • Inscribed on verso by the artist, in brown ink: at lower right, with a list of the towers of Seville and the distances between them, torros / dendo la p[uerta] / de gola (goles) / 17 1 P galo (Goles) 2/17 2 P sto gion (de San Juan) 21 3 P de vaquer (Barqueta) 13 4 P Malaren… 8 5 P Cordoba 8 6 P del Sol 10 7 P Lonsario (Osario) 7 8 P de Germona (Carmona) 12 8 P de Carne (de la Carne) + (referring to note at left: + is om hyer tot / alcar …/ sijder 9 van/ 8 ... tot/ P Jeres —— 15) 9 P de Jeres ( Jerez) 8 10 P de Loro (del Ovo) 11 P de arenael (del Arenal) 12 P tryana torres in Syvillia asta / 139 (i.e. total circumference), followed by a list of numbers (11, 8, 17, 21, 13, 8, 8, 10, 7, 17, 9); and at left, el tor de Lors.
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. 601.15, illus. p.527.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:15

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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