Description
A watercolour drawing of Windsor Castle, showing the Round Tower on the left, the Winchester Tower on the right and the Store Tower at the centre. In the foreground, trees, cottages and a woman and child. Mounted on a yellow, grey and pink wash line bordered mount of a type associated with drawings acquired at the Paul Sandby estate sale in 1811. The mount is lettered, 'View of the Round, Winchester and Store Towers in Windsor Castle'. A companion drawing in an identical mount showing the Round Tower and Black Rod from a different angle is also in the Royal Collection and the two were probably intended as a pair.
As with several of Sandby's watercolours of Windsor Castle, there is a related work in bodycolour that belonged to Sir Joseph Banks (sale, Christie's, 23 May 1876, lot 34), in this instance dated about 1767 (The Fairhaven Collection, National Trust, Anglesey Abbey). The Round Tower was raised and remodelled by Jeffrey Wyatville in the nineteenth century. The open space shown here in the foreground was also replaced by a roadway under Wyatville's alteration scheme.
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
Buildings & Architecture
