drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- SL,5214.17
- Description
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Prospect of Tangier from the W; view from a grassy slope looking towards the town, with Peterborough Tower on the left and the bay in mid-distance centre, on the right undulating country dotted with outlying forts, on the extreme left the distant coast of Spain, in the foreground two red-coated musketeers marching towards the left, and below three horsemen riding away towards the right up the opposite bank; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings. c.1669
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour; on four conjoined pieces of paper
- Production date
- 1669 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 849 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The central portion was later etched by Hollar with modifications (Pennington 1190); the left part was also re-used for a frontal etching of the fortifications (Pennington 1194).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1960, BM, Sloane Drawings, (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5214.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T,10.17
