Italianate Landscape

1762/ c. 1774

Paul Sandby

Artist, British, 1731 - 1809

Paul Sandby

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Washington Print Club in honor of Sherwood Smith

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 42.9 x 33.8 cm (16 7/8 x 13 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1989.47.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gunn 2015, no. 195


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1985

  • The Art of Paul Sandby. Exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1985: no. 79. The print catalogued in this entry ( from the British Museum) is falsely described as a unique impression; the NGA print is the same.

2015

  • Gunn, Ann V. The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809). Turnhout, 2015: no. 195

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: P. Sandby fecit 1762; upper right verso by later hand in graphite: [illegible]

Wikidata ID

Q74882783


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