Benton Castle, Looking down the Reach to Milford Haven

1775

Paul Sandby

Artist, British, 1731 - 1809

Robert Pollard

Artist, British, 1755 - 1838

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Etching and aquatint with roulette and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24 × 31.3 cm (9 7/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.119.1.22

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gunn 2015, no. 207

Associated Artworks

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Chepstow Castle

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

1777

Manerbawr Castle from the Inward Court

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

1775

Windsor Terrass Looking Eastward

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

1776

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 134 b.

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann: no. 24

2015

  • Gunn, Ann V. The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809). Turnhout, 2015: no. 207

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 91, fig. 3.

Inscriptions

Upper center in plate: XI; lower center in plate: BENTON CASTLE, Looking down the Reach to MILFORD HAVEN; lower left in plate: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Sepr. 1st. 1775.; lower right in plate: P. Sandby Fecit.; within image, lower center, on rock by water: P. Sandby 1774

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