Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire
1770–79 (?)
Medium
Reed pen, with gray and black ink and watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 26 × 39 3/16 in. (66 × 99.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Accession Number
2013.94
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Paul Sandby · 1731–1809
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...