drawing
- Museum number
- 1932,1103.6
- Description
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Outlying forts in the vicinity of Tangier; an extensive prospect, from near the E end of the town looking SW over undulating and grassy country, in the foreground Bridges Fort and beyond it Fount Fort, further off left on an eminence Monmouth Fort from which a palisade runs down the slope to the left, from near Bridges Fort a road disappearing over the brown of a hill, in the distance right Charles Fort. c.1669
Graphite, strengthened with pen and grey ink, with watercolour; on eight conjoined pieces of paper
Verso: Four separate views of outlying Forts; (1) Catherine Fort and Norwood Fort from the NE, (2) Distant view of Charles Fort from the E, (3) The path leading down to Whitehall Fort, looking E, with part of the city on the left, (4) James Fort and Ann's Fort from the N. 1669
Graphite, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1669 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 106 millimetres
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Width: 1246 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Hollar travelled to Tangier in 1669, as part of the mission there led by Henry Howard. Whilst there he produced around thirty drawings, recognised as among his chief achievements as a landscape artist, from which about fifteen etchings were eventually derived on his return to London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to BM Dept of MSS, 1887. Transferred to Dept of Prints & Drawings, Nov 1932.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1932,1103.6
