Henry VIII Gateway, Windsor Castle

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
by-nc

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

Title

Henry VIII Gateway, Windsor Castle

Date of Production

1767

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown inks, watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compass, laid down on the artist's wash mount

Dimensions

Height: 37 cm
Width: 47.2 cm

Object Number

D.1967.WS.85

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Label Text

This view is one of a large group of watercolours of Windsor Castle and its surroundings by Paul Sandby. A glimpse of the town is seen through the lofty arches of the gateway. The notice on the base of the right-hand tower shows it to be the debtors’ prison. As in many of Sandby’s topographical works, the scene has been enlivened with animated figures of all types, adding interest and humour to an otherwise formal composition.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check drawing as is laid down. One is visible in raking light on the mount, right centre of the verso, but unable to make out - the Spooner 2005 catalogue identifies it as "VILLEDARY" but it appears rather to be a coat of arms.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower left on wall, grey ink, artist’s hand: “WINDSOR / and / EATON. MACH / Sold out”; within the drawing, lower right on wall, grey ink, artist’s hand: “Pray remember / the Poor Confin’d / Debtors”; lower left corner, gold paint, signed and dated: “P Sandby Pinxt 1767”. Mount (artist's), Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “The Town Gate + Debtor’s Prison / Windsor Castle / P. Sandby 1767.”.

Collector's mark: none.

Provenance

Mrs J.B. Young; Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005
British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006
Material Evidence: Drawings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/1998-24/01/1999
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The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986
English Landscape Drawings & Watercolours from the Witt and Spooner Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, June 1979-September 1979
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1976-1976; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976-1976
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968
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Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 8
ill. on p. 89
Material Evidence, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1998-1999
Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 178
ill. on p. 179
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The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 104
ill. on p. 233
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
no. 93, p. 75
ill. on p. 94
As 'Spooner collection 84'
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 12
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 9
ill.
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 23
English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 48
ill. inside cover
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 63
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 15
pl. V
Oppé, A.P., The drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1947
p. 24
pl. 17
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