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Panoramic View of Daroca

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

Panoramic view of Daroca in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On three sheets.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitlePanoramic View of Daroca (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour; thick framing line in black ink
Pen
Brown Ink
Watercolour
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, 'Panoramic View of Daroca', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1563
Physical description
Panoramic view of Daroca in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
On three sheets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 280mm (Note: H.282 x W.849 mm Measured by A.Greig 01/08/2017)
  • Width: 841mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed and dated at lower left, on a rock, in brown ink, Anto Vanden Wyngaerde / fecit ad vivum 1563.
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre (flanking the royal coat of arms with suspended ram’s fleece, symbol of the Order of the Golden Fleece) divo phillipo and hips [sic] rex ; below this, DAROCHA; further inscribed with remarks and identifying names throughout the sheet (from left to right, top to bottom), Esta conduto de agua— / e los sargo de un Canio— / a¯ totio · 700 passes / el premio Logar in Aragon / Los Stos Los in Corporales / Camin de Caragoza / stema de los Stos in Corporales.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink (turned 90° to the left): at left, steden van aragon Catalonie Valencien; and at right, Darocha (turned 90° to the left).
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. 601.8, illus. p.514-515.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:8

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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