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English: Windsor Castle, the Quadrangle; looking W, along the Quadrangle towards the Keep or Round Tower, approached r, by a covered ascent, with the S range of buildings on the left, including the Augusta Tower, the Black or York Tower, the King's or 'Rubbish' Gate, and on the right, the N range, including King John's Tower, the Spicery Gatehouse, the Private Chapel and St George's Hall, in the centre, two women crossing, on the right, three musketeers and soldiers with a cannon
Pen and brown ink, partly ruled, tinted with watercolour and bodycolour, and strengthened with gum, on vellum |
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| Date | circa 1659 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | vellum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gg,3.359 |
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| Notes | Unusually large and meticulously executed, this drawing was surely intended as a presentation piece, a function further suggested by Hollar's use of a vellum support. It was most likely worked up from sketches made by Hollar on his return visit to Windsor in 1659 with Elias Ashmole, whose diary entry (Bodleian) for 25 May records taking the artist to the town 'to take views of the Castle'. The 'views' mentioned by Ashmole are surely identifiable with the sketches from Ashmole's collection in the Bodleian (Sprinzels no.363; Volrábová no. V/9), which may have been the source material for the London drawing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Gg-3-359 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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