Recto: View of the Castle and Fortress of Baena with its Moat and Drawbridge
Drawing
c. 1567 (drawn)
c. 1567 (drawn)
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Panoramic view of a castle with moat and drawbridge in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Recto: pen and brown ink, with watercolour, over black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk |
| Brief description | Drawing, Recto: 'View of the Castle and Fortress of Baena with its Moat and Drawbridge', Verso: 'Two Studies of the Walls of a Fortified Town or Large Fort', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, c. 1567 |
| Physical description | Panoramic view of a castle with moat and drawbridge in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, Castell de haeyn; and at lower left, porte de la ville. Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: at upper left, W / port daader(?) ster; and with details of the fort numbered 3, 10, 11 and 12. |
| 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. |
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| Accession number | 8455:14 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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