Universal Architecture: Book I, Six Original Designs of Arbours; Book II, Six Original Designs for Grottoes
1755 and 1758
Medium
Illustrations: etching
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 18 9/16 x 3/16in. (29.8 x 47.2 x 0.5cm)
Classification
Books|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.514.4(1-27)
About the Artist
Paul Sandby|Matthew Darly|Thomas Wright
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...