Recto: (top) Panoramic View of Saragossa; (lower left) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona; (lower centre) The Coast at Tarragona as far as Salou; (lower right) Cervera and its Outskirts thumbnail 1
Recto: (top) Panoramic View of Saragossa; (lower left) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona; (lower centre) The Coast at Tarragona as far as Salou; (lower right) Cervera and its Outskirts thumbnail 2
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Recto: (top) Panoramic View of Saragossa; (lower left) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona; (lower centre) The Coast at Tarragona as far as Salou; (lower right) Cervera and its Outskirts

Drawing
c. 1563 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Anton Van Den Wyngaerde (artist)
Place of origin
Spain (drawn)

Panoramic view of Saragossa, Cervera and the coast of Spain on either side of Tarragona in pen and ink. On each side of the sheet is a view of Roman remains at Tarragona, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On seven sheets, unevenly joined together.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Recto: (top) Panoramic View of Saragossa; (lower left) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona; (lower centre) The Coast at Tarragona as far as Salou; (lower right) Cervera and its Outskirts (published title)
  • Verso: '(left-hand side) The Coast of Spain and Cervera; (right-hand side) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona' (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and different shades of brown ink, over black chalk
Pen
Brown Ink
Black Chalk
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, Recto: '(top) Panoramic View of Saragossa; (lower left) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona; (lower centre) The Coast at Tarragona as far as Salou; (lower right) Cervera and its Outskirts,' Verso: '(left-hand side) The Coast of Spain and Cervera; (right-hand side) Ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre at Tarragona', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, c. 1563
Physical description
Panoramic view of Saragossa, Cervera and the coast of Spain on either side of Tarragona in pen and ink. On each side of the sheet is a view of Roman remains at Tarragona, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On seven sheets, unevenly joined together.
Dimensions
  • Height: 286mm (Note: H. 284 x W. 1485 mm. Measured by A. Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 1475mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at upper left, in black chalk (probably not by the artist), Saragossa; in brown ink: on upper section throughout the sheet (from left to right), La fayneria / S Augustino / steenhouwer / veel houten / groen aerde(?) / el sepulcro monestorio de vreulas (Veruela) / La madalena / strat / hyer wasteen / S Jan el Vechio / maneto/ Lonye / La chesia magior / s franco / Casa de Vespo / La casa do planto / La Borso / lalquaria do salzes / La torre nove / Do¯ Martin de torrozos / bomen / nro¯ Dama del pilar / el son de yerba / wit bloch (?) / Sto Paulus / nra¯ sra de portrellia en s de los peni.. / Safferia / Casa del Duc / sta Lucia / prodiragores / S Lambertus / water; on lower left-hand drawing (from left to right), Coliseo Antique in tarre gone / a nre Done de los mylacolos / altaferia / Beselonia / La fosse de mar; on penultimate right-hand section (from left to right, top to bottom), S maria del miracoli / palalzio del Rey / La casa de Vespos / S Clara / el Sea / S michael / molo / Salen / s franco / muras antiquas / S domingo; on the far right-hand section (from left to right), Sernera / Villia del Rey. Inscribed under this last annotation, in black chalk or graphite, Villio del Rey.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: on upper left section, Van Saragaza @ 1563 (turned 90° to the right): on lower left section, olivaras / wech / blau Lantscap / wech / Renira; on lower centre left section, Servera De la parte de Lerida; below this in black chalk, De parte de Lerida; on upper right section, cazagaza (turned 90° to the left); on lower centre right section, Valencia met tarragona (turned 90° to the left); and on lower right section, by Moflin, Coleseo in terragona.
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. 601.13, illus. p.524-525.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:13

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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