Couple Playing Shuttlecock and Battledore
Paul Sandby
1760/99
Medium
Graphite with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
6.6 × 9.7 cm (2 5/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85125
About the Artist
Paul Sandby
Paul Sandby (1731–1809), an English painter and draughtsman born in Nottingham, is celebrated as the father of English watercolour landscape painting. He learned drawing from his older brother Thomas Sandby, a prominent architect and artist, and followed him into the Military Drawing Office at the Tower of London, where they honed their skills as military draughtsmen. In 1747, Paul accompanied Tho...