Pont-y-Pair over the River Conway above Llanrwst in the County of Denbigh

1776

Paul Sandby

Artist, British, 1731 - 1809

Robert Pollard

Artist, British, 1755 - 1838

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with burnishing printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Accession

    2004.119.1.35

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gunn 2015, no. 225

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Associated Artworks

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Chepstow Castle

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

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Manerbawr Castle from the Inward Court

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

1775

Windsor Terrass Looking Eastward

Paul Sandby, Robert Pollard

1776

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 134 b.

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann: no. 25

2015

  • Gunn, Ann V. The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809). Turnhout, 2015: no. 225

Inscriptions

Upper left in plate: No. 12.; lower right in plate: P. Sandby Fecit.; lower center in plate: Pont-y-Pair over the River Conway above Llanrwst in the County of Denbigh.; lower left in plate: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Sepr. 1st. 1776.

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