Title
Windsor Castle from Mr Isherwood's Brewhouse in Datchet Lane 1780. / P. Sandby.
Creator
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : [Paul Sandby], [1780]
Physical details
1 print : etching with hand-colouring ; sheet 18.3 x 25.8 cm, on support sheet with washline mount 31.7 x 39.6 cm
Description
View of the castle with the Round Tower to the left, seen above trees from the cobbled yard of a brewery, with a horse hitched to a cart laden with barrels waiting in the foreground and a man with a whip leading another horse out of the stable on the right; chickens behind to right, other men loading another cart in the background and a man carrying a barrel on the left. Inscribed within the image 'Windsor from Mr Isherwoods Brewhouse in Datchet Lane 1780 / P Sandby' on a sign attached to the wall on the right-hand side. Bears title inscribed in black ink below image on washline mount. Inscribed '11 tab fol 6' in blue crayon on verso.
Place
Windsor (England)
Additional information
This item has been cut to within the platemark and to the very edge of the image. The publication information has been taken from an uncoloured print from the same plate (but which was printed at a later date with aquatint in 1812) in the British Museum at 1904,0819.599 which reads: 'P. Sandby 1780 / Published by T. Palser Surry side Westminster Bridge 1812'.
Shelfmark
Maps 183.h.2.