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After Thomas Sandby (1721-98)
The New Building on Shrubs Hill. [Eight Views of Windsor Great Park] c. 1754
Etching | 34.0 x 56.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 814377
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An etching of the New Tower or Belvedere on Shrubs Hill, with people walking about. A woman prepares to climb into a carriage for a ride. Group of young deer to right. Windsor Great Park in distance. Lettered below, 'The New Building on Shrubs Hill', 'T. Sandby Delin.t' and 'Cannot Sculpt.' Trimmed inside platemark.
After leading the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–6, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland was appointed Ranger of Windsor Great Park. He began a programme of landscaping in the Park, and commissioned Thomas Sandby, who had worked as a surveyor for the Duke in Scotland, to design a set of prints of the remodelled estate. Eight Views of Windsor Great Park was available to subscribers in December 1754, and presumably published the following year. Pierre-Charles Canot, François Vivares, Paul Sandby, Edward Rooker and James Mason etched the plates. For the other plates and frontispiece, see RCINs 814376-85. A pencil drawing of the carriage is RCIN 914356. For a discussion of the prints as estate portraiture, see Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, exh cat, Royal Academy, National Galleries of Scotland and Nottingham Castle Museum, 2009-10, pp. 192-197. -
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34.0 x 56.9 cm (sheet of paper)