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The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park

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Date

1754-1755 (?)

Artist

Thomas Sandby (1723-1798)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406117

Description

Sandby and his younger brother, Paul, were leading early practitioners of watercolor in England. Employed as artist and landscape architect by the Duke of Cumberland, the Ranger of Windsor Great Park from 1750, Thomas made the present study for a set of prints titled "Eight Views of Windsor," published in 1754-55. The freely drawn sheet describes Moat Island, a feature formed by the conjunction of two tributaries of the Bourne Ditch. The artist first sketched the subject in graphite then applied colored washes. Foreground trees screen a lawn where cows and sheep graze, with the forms echoed in the distance along a body of water. Medium: watercolour, pen and gray ink, graphite.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England

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Cows
Mammals
Trees

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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