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The Henry VIII Gateway with a view of St. George's Chapel

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Date

c.1775

Artist

Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Collection

Royal Collection Trust

Image Link

https://www.rct.uk/collection/914548

Description

A watercolour drawing of the Henry VIII Gateway, looking into the Castle from the gate towards the west end of St. George's Chapel and the Horseshoe Cloister. Several groups of figures are standing in the gateway. A woman with a water cart and two small mules is led by a man carrying a bucket; two soldiers are on duty near their guardbox on the left, one leaning on the wall next to a small boy with a jug and a dog or goat. On the right, a chimney sweep is standing with a small boy, and two well-dressed ladies behind. At the far right, a knife-grinder is working at his stall. In the background, through the gateway, an elegant carriage has just entered the Castle. The sheet is mounted on a yellow and grey wash line bordered mount of a type associated with drawings acquired at the Paul Sandby estate sale in 1811. Inscribed on the mount in faint pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, 'Town Gate Windsor Castle'.
The costume of the two elegant ladies under the gateway suggests a date of about 1775 or later. An engraving of the same view was included in Sandby's '150 Select Views', published 1780. A bodycolour of the same view with many of the same figures is at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

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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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Architecture
People
Castles
Religious Buildings
Donkeys

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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