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Panoramic View of Jaén, with the Figure of a Man Sketching in the Foreground

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

Panoramic view of Jaen in pen, ink and watercolour, formerly bound in an album with 31 other views.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitlePanoramic 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.
Pen
Brown Ink
Brown Wash
Black Chalk
Paper
Drawing
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 292 mm
  • Width: 1014 mm
Style
Flemish School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed and dated at lower left, in brown ink, Anto Vanden Wyngaerd f. / @ 1567.
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, IA EN
  • At lower left, with a key, originally arranged in three columns (the left portion of which is missing), whose corresponding letters and numbers are scattered throughout the drawing, (left column) M Sto elyfonza (Ildefonso) / N postygo de Sto Sebastyaen / O nra Sra de la Cabesza / P torra de perea / q p[uerta] berrera / R p[uerta] del Sol / S p[uerta] dona (crossed through) Martus (Marlos) / T p[uerta] nova / V p[uerta] de asotona (Acetuno) / X postygo nova; (right column) 1 La merced / 2 Sto Lazaro / 3 So Isabelle / 4 La Coronada / 5 Rocho / 6 Sto Anders / 7 Lorenza (S. Lorenzo) / 8 porta de Carnacerya (Carneceria) / 9 S Petra (Pedro) / 10 St Joan ( Juan) / 12 St Salvador / 13 S mychyil (Miguel)
  • further inscribed on the hillside (clockwise from upper left), Castyellio Real / Bomen / ortos / ortos.
  • Inscribed on verso, in brown ink: at left, Jaen en antequera; and at right, Jaen / Jaen.
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.
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. 601.4, illus. p.508-509.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8455:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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