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Creator:
Paul Sandby RA, 1731–1809
Title:

St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and the Entrance to the Singing Men's Cloister

Additional Title(s):

Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, and the Entrance to the Singing Men's Cloister

Part Of:

Collective Title: Views of Windsor Castle

Date:
1765
Medium:
Gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 21 1/2 inches (38.1 x 54.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on back in graphite lower left: "Paul Sandby: St. George's Chapel, Windsor | And the Entrance to the Singing Men's Cloister | 65/9/14/46"; in graphite lower right: "No 8 | Windsor St Georges Chapel | with the entrance to the singing mens Cloister | 1768"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2692
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | balustrades | carriages | chapel | flying buttresses | Gothic (Medieval) | Grand Tour | spires | weathervanes
Associated Places:
England | Europe | St George's Chapel | United Kingdom | Windsor and Maidenhead | Windsor Castle
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19914
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Paul Sandby produced numerous views of Windsor Castle in watercolors, gouache, and oils. These were shown in the public exhibitions and proved extremely popular with collectors. In this example, part of a series of Windsor views in gouache from the mid-1760s, Sandby shows St. George's Chapel at Windsor, where Paul Mellon would be baptized in December 1907. As Mr. Mellon remarked, "I have always felt conscious of this singular privilege, as if the ceremony somehow foreshadowed my later addiction to English life and English places."

Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 62, 65, no. 82, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 20-21, no. 5, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]


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