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The Town Gate looking westwards down Castle Hill

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Date

c.1768

Artist

Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Collection

Royal Collection Trust

Image Link

https://www.rct.uk/collection/914546

Description

A watercolour showing a view through the Town Gate, looking westwards down Castle Hill. The Henry VIII Gateway and Salisbury Tower are on the right. In the centre, a couple and child in a horse and gig are proceeding up Castle Hill. A soldier on the left is leaning over the fence of one of the houses, possibly to flirt with a woman at the window, observed by another woman above. Other figures in the background and through the gate are unloading barrels and baskets. A ruler has been used for some of the architecture, and a column of pinpricks is visible at the right edge for the lines of brickwork. The sheet is circumscribed with a black line and white border, and mounted on a yellow, grey and black ink line border of a type associated with works in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. Inscribed on the verso in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, 'Windsor. View of the Town through the Gateway, from the Castle Hill', and a queried date of 1768.
The Town Gate of Windsor Castle was set at right angles to the Henry VIII Gateway and built in the reign of Elizabeth I. In the eighteenth century the main pedestrian route to Datchet was along this road, passing up Castle Hill and into the Little Park. The Gate was taken down between 1832 and 1837.

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

Location

Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

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Buildings
People
Castles
Horses

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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