File:Drawing (BM 1943,0410.1).jpg
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drawing |
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Description |
English: A pollard oak near West Hampnett Place, Chichester. c.1660
Brush drawing in watercolour over graphite, touched with white, on vellum |
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Date |
circa 1660 date QS:P571,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | vellum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1943,0410.1 |
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Notes |
Stainton & White 1987 The locality depicted in this charmingly naive watercolour is established by the artist's etching of West Hampnett Place, one of a series of five views in the neighbourhood of Chichester (Bodleian Library, Gough Topography 17528, f. 1b). Comparison with an eighteenth-century map of West Sussex shows that in order to frame the distant view of Chichester Cathedral more picturesquely, the artist has altered the position of the mill and the stream. West Hampnett Place, a red-brick gabled house of the late sixteenth century, built by Richard Sackville, was greatly altered in later times and destroyed by fire in 1930. The costume of the diminutive figures in the foreground suggests a date of about 1660 for this drawing. Dunstall's use of opaque watercolour on vellum is an interesting survival of a technique which goes back to manuscript illumination of the medieval period and which continued to be used for drawing maps and semi-cartographical bird's-eye views: as late as 1658 Sir William Sanderson described exactly the same method in his 'Graphice', in the section devoted to limning landscapes. K Sloan, Noble Art 2000 |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1943-0410-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Date and time of digitizing | 18:13, 21 October 2004 |
File change date and time | 13:32, 25 October 2004 |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:32, 25 October 2004 |
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