Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Old English Bridge at Shrewsbury under Reconstruction

Paul Sandby
1731-1809

The Old English Bridge at Shrewsbury under Reconstruction

1770
13 1/4 x 26 inches (337 x 660 mm)
Pen and black ink and watercolor over graphite on paper.
2002.67

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.

Notes
Through his work as a teacher and as the only watercolorist elected a founding member of the Royal Academy, Sandby played an important role in raising the watercolor medium to a status on a par with oil painting. The so-called English and Welsh bridges at Shrewsbury were among Sandby's favorite subjects, and he made at least thirteen drawings in watercolor of the two bridges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and black ink at lower right, "the old Bridge at Shrewsbury ..."
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Century Drawings
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