Description
A pen and ink and watercolour drawing showing a group of four men standing in conversation on the North Terrace, Windsor Castle, looking east. The figures are numbered below in pencil 3, 2, 1. Inscribed below on the modern mount, probably copied from an earlier one 'J. Isherwood, the brewer', 'J. Davis', 'the smith' and 'Cap. Archibald Campbell'. Inscribed below on the modern mount, 'On Windsor Terrace / Paul Sandby'.
The three drawings on this mount were exhibited at the Royal Academy (British Art), 1943, no. 594, where the inscriptions differed slightly. Isherwood, founder of the brewery in Datchet Lane died in 1772; his son Henry was MP for Windsor and died in 1797. The Davis family were general furnishers of ironwork to Windsor Castle from the seventeenth century onwards. Captain Archibald Campbell possibly refers to the distinguished officer (1739-1791) who served the Fraser Highlanders in North America from 1757 until 1779, when he returned and married the daughter of Allan Ramsay. By 1779 both Campbell and Isherwood would be too old for the figures in this drawing, but both men were probably known to Sandby.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017
Location
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Country
England
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
People & Society