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Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
View near Cranbourne Lodge c. 1780
Pencil and watercolour | 37.5 x 54.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 914612
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A watercolour drawing in Windsor Great Park, with an old beech tree at the centre and several figures and cattle. A woman, child and dog, horses cantering, and women gathering sticks. On a grey and yellow wash-line bordered mount similar to 'Type 1' (see Jane Roberts, Views of Windsor, 1995, p. 142). Lettered on the mount in pencil: 'View near Cranburn Lodge [sic] in Windsor Park'. With an auction mark associated with Paul Sandby's estate sale, 2-4 May 1811, trimmed and illegible.
Sandby made many drawings of trees, woods and activity in Windsor Great Park, where his brother was Deputy Ranger from 1765. Oppé suggests a date of after 1778 for this drawing because of the uniform worn by the rider on horseback. Sandby's attention increasingly focussed on the tall majestic trees in the Park, as seen in his studies of the Woodyard in the 1790s and other watercolours of trees such as those on Lord Bute's estate. Cranbourne Lodge was one of the houses used by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland until his death in 1765; the house no longer survives. Although the drawings was apparently in Sandby's estate sale in 1811, Oppé suggests it cannot be that sold on 4 May, lot 71, 'a Portrait of a Beech Tree in Cranburn Park', as that is described as bodycolour on canvas, and suggests that that drawing is more likely to be RCIN 914677. However the medium may merely be described incorrectly in the 1811 sale, as 914677 has no obvious connection with Cranbourne.Provenance
Paul Sandby estate sale, 2-4 May 1811, possibly 4 May, lot 71 'a portrait of an Old Beech tree in Cranburn Park'; possibly therefore bought by Colnaghi for George IV when Prince of Wales, £7 17s 6d
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
37.5 x 54.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 14612
