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Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
The north-east corner of Windsor Castle seen from below, with lightning c. 1765
Bodycolour | 38.0 x 48.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 914581
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A bodycolour drawing of the north east corner of Windsor Castle from below, in the Little Park, during a thunderstorm. At the centre of the drawing, a white zig-zag line signifies lightning. In the lower left corner, a terrified horse has broken loose. On the right, several large trees. The sheet of paper is circumscribed with a black line, and mounted on a gold and black wash-line bordered mount, possibly trimmed. Inscribed on the verso in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, 'North side of Windsor Castle from the Home Park'. Pasted on the verso, an exhibition label from the International Exhibition, 1862, no. 825.
A related pencil drawing is in the Staatliche Museen Greiz (E 488). Several of Sandby's bodycolour drawings of Windsor explore dramatic atmospheric effects and the 'sublime' propounded by Edmund Burke (for example, RCIN 914584), and may also have been influenced by his contact with bodycolours by Marco Ricci. Several of these works entered George III's possession with the purchase of the Consul Smith collection in 1762. The subject of a frightened horse was associated with George Stubbs in the 1760s. Other drawings by Sandby explore natural phenomena (RCIN 914577).Provenance
Paul Sandby (sale, Christie's 2 May 1811, lot 91); purchased by Shepperd (£2 7s.) for the Prince Regent (later King George IV); by descent
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Medium and techniques
Bodycolour
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38.0 x 48.5 cm (sheet of paper)
39.5 x 50.0 cm (mount)
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RL 14581
