print
- Museum number
- 1857,0520.112
- Description
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The Castle in the Mumbles, Swansea; a castle on the brow of a hill, with a cluster of trees in the field below, seen from a path which curves from the foreground past a steep bank with bushes and trees in the extreme right, with two figures walking away from the viewer along the road; in an oval within a rectangle. 1795
Etching
- Production date
- 1770-1797 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 82 millimetres
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Width: 110 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Aylesford first produced landscape etchings in 1770-71, followed by a few more in the 1780s but the majority were produced between 1794-97, when he executed fifty-one compositions in the style of Rembrandt, with constant revisions of the plates.
For more information on Aylesford's activities as a draughtsman and printmaker, see Kim Sloan, 'A Noble Art: Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c. 1600-1800', catalogue of an exhibition, BM 2000, no.s 120-121.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Acquisition notes
- 1857,0520.65 to 441 all came from lots 731 to 754 of the McIntosh sale which were all (with the exception of lot 752) bought for the BM for a total of £14 8s. The prices of the individual lots are given in the Bill Book, but were small and so not entered here.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0520.112