A small selection from works on show in Paul Sandby: Pictruing Britain. Select the OPEN links to read more about a work, and select the image to enlarge it.
Horse Fair on Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh
Paul Sandby
Horse Fair on Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh Paul Sandby
1750
D 5184
This work is a great rarity among Sandby\'s Scottish views as a fully developed figurative composition. The artist has inhabited his scene with a richly varied crowd of dealers, soldiers, Jacobites, drinkers and families. All are set before a splendid backdrop provided by the castle and old town.- Material: Watercolour over pencil on paper
- Size: 24.40 x 37.40 cm
- National Galleries of Scotland
The Rainbow
Paul Sandby
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
The Rainbow Paul Sandby
about 1800
The Rainbow is one of Sandby's finest and most widely appreciated late works and is a dramatic, imaginative celebration of mature woodland and rural life. The motif of the rainbow may well have been inspired by the Sir Peter Paul Rubens' great Rainbow Landscape (about 1636).
- Material: Bodycolour on paper
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
Englefield Green, near Egham
Paul Sandby
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
Englefield Green, near Egham Paul Sandby
about 1800
This is a view of the house of Sir John Elvil at Englefield Green, to the east of Windsor Great Park. In 1798 Paul Sandy moved with his family to a house at Englefield Green. The view of the surrounding landscape is enlivened by sheep, cattle, geese, dogs and horses, and in the middle-distance, carriages.
- Material: Bodycolour on paper
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
Tea at Englefield Green
Paul Sandby
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
Tea at Englefield Green Paul Sandby
about 1800
This charming work, which complements Sandby's Englefield Green, near Egham shown nearby conveys an idyllic view of semi-rural life, with children playing, couples strolling and the taking of tea and gardening being depicted.
- Material: Bodycolour on paper
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
Windsor Castle from Datchet Lane on a Rejoicing Night
Paul Sandby
- The Royal Collection © 2009 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Windsor Castle from Datchet Lane on a Rejoicing Night Paul Sandby
1786
Sandby brilliantly depicts four light sources in this memorable image; the bonfire, fireworks, moon and torch carried by the figures travelling home in the foreground. It is a work of great technical sophistication, for example, the use of gold paint to evoke the firelight glistening on the castle windows.
- Material: Watercolour and bodycolour, including gold paint, on paper
- The Royal Collection © 2009 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
ʼWill you buy my Crabs come buy my Crabsʼ
Paul Sandby
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries
'Will you buy my Crabs come buy my Crabs' Paul Sandby
about 1759
Only one set of Sandby's London Cries, from which this picture is taken, was published, although surviving related studies show that several further sets were planned. These drawings demonstrate how far Sandby developed the genre, paying great attention to location and drama.
- Material: Pen, ink and watercolour over graphite
- © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries