Caesar’s Tower and Part of Warwick Castle from the Island, plate three from Views of Warwick Castle
January 1776
Medium
Etching and aquatint in bistre on heavy cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.8 × 45.8 cm (11 3/4 × 18 1/16 in.); Plate: 32.5 × 48.3 cm (12 13/16 × 19 1/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 63.5 cm (17 3/8 × 25 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
188440
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Paul Sandby was the first English artist to seek the picturesque in the broken surfaces and timeworn buildings of Scotland and Wales. In his many landscapes and views of castles, Sandby incorporated buildings, townspeople, animals, and other minor elements as details that heighten the sense of the picturesque. The balance of buildings with the flow of the landscape is perhaps one of the most attractive features of Sandby’s work.
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...