Panoramic View of Jaén, with the Figure of a Man Sketching in the Foreground
Drawing
1567 (drawn)
1567 (drawn)
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Panoramic view of Jaen in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.
Object details
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| Title | Panoramic View of Jaén, with the Figure of a Man Sketching in the Foreground (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over traces of black chalk.
On five principal sheets, with three additions at top and three at bottom; serious losses at lower left, with other losses elsewhere. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Panoramic View of Jaén, with the Figure of a Man Sketching in the Foreground', by Anton van den Wyngaerde, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, 1567 |
| Physical description | Panoramic view of Jaen in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Gallery label | The elevated viewpoint, attention to detail and careful setting of the city within the surrounding landscape are characteristic of Anton van den Wyngaerde’s style. King Philip II of Spain commissioned him to create views like this as a pictorial map of Spain. Wyngaerde shows himself in this drawing, sketching the city in southern-central Spain from a hill above. He was the greatest Netherlandish topographical artist of the later 16th century. |
| 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 | 8455:4 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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