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Paul Sandby (1731–1809)
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire
Watercolor and graphite
10 11/16 x 16 7/8 in. (271 x 429 mm)
Signed, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, partly on drawing and partly on original mount, P. Sandby; inscribed, at lower right, in graphite, Tudbury Castle Staffordshire
Purchased as the gift of Arnold Whitridge in memory of Mrs. Arnold Whitridge; 1974.2
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The picturesque attitude had a strong impact on the topographical artist, as seen here in Sandby's watercolor of Tutbury Castle. The artist not only exploited the picturesque love of ruins, and the rough and irregular forms, but he enhanced the rustic charm with his depiction of a herdsman and three cows.

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