The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park 1754–55 (?) Thomas Sandby British Sandby and his younger brother, Paul, were leading early practitioners of watercolor in England. Employed as artist and landscape architect by the Duke of Cumberland, the Ranger of Windsor Great Park from 1750, Thomas made the present study for a set of prints titled "Eight Views of Windsor," published in 1754-55. The freely drawn sheet describes Moat Island, a feature formed by the conjunction of two tributaries of the Bourne Ditch. The artist first sketched the subject in graphite then applied colored washes. Foreground tr
The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park 1754–55 (?) Thomas Sandby British Sandby and his younger brother, Paul, were leading early practitioners of watercolor in England. Employed as artist and landscape architect by the Duke of Cumberland, the Ranger of Windsor Great Park from 1750, Thomas made the present study for a set of prints titled "Eight Views of Windsor," published in 1754-55. The freely drawn sheet describes Moat Island, a feature formed by the conjunction of two tributaries of the Bourne Ditch. The artist first sketched the subject in graphite then applied colored washes. Foreground trees screen a lawn where cows and sheep graze, with the forms echoed in the distance along a body of The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park 406117
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