Windsor Great Park
Paul Sandby
1790–99
Medium
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) with gum arabic
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 × 12 in. (22.8 × 30.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, 1995
Accession Number
1995.199
Tags
ParksBullsPondsForests
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...