View of Denton Lodge, Norfolk, the seat of Dr. Sandby, with members of the family studying an estate map under trees on the left, a milkmaid with cattle in the centre
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PAUL SANDBY, R.A. (NOTTINGHAM 1731-1809 LONDON)
View of Denton Lodge, Norfolk, the seat of Dr. Sandby, with members of the family studying an estate map under trees on the left, a milkmaid with cattle in the centre
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
27 3/8 x 41 1/8 in. (69.5 x 104.4 cm.) each
Provenance
Dr George Sandby, the artist's cousin, and by descent to his daughter, Katherine Emma Bowyer, and by descent to her daughter Beatrice Shaw, and by descent to her daughter The Hon. Jean Helen Shaw Preston, and by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
probably London, Royal Academy, 1799, no. 650 (as 'West View of Denton Lodge in Norfolk, the seat of Dr. Sandby, Chancellor of Norwich, Flixton House in the centre, and Flixton Hall, the seat of Mr. Alex Adair, on the right'). Sudbury, Gainsborough's House Museum, Watercolours by Paul Sandby loaned from a private collection, 2 April to 11 June 2005.