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Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire, from Twelve Views in South Wales 1775
Paul Sandby
* 1731, Nottingham † 1809, London
Etching and aquatint in grey. Size of sheet: 24.8 x 32.6 cm.
Literature:
Nagler 24;
Robertson (1985) 89;
Herrmann (1986) 12;
Gunn 197 (I/IV).
Very fine impression of the first state of four, with narrow margins and partially uncleaned plate edges. Before the publication line and before changes to the sky in later states. Sandby's watercolour of this view is in the V&A (613-1870). An inscription thereon identifies the man in the boat (bottom centre) as Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809), and the gigure wading into the mud as Sandby himself.
£ 1200.-