Recueil de Paysages par Sandby

Etcher Paul Sandby British
1 print by François Vivares French
1 print after Jacopo Amigoni Italian

Not on view

An album containing 70 etchings by Sandby on 33 leaves. Figures, group scenes, night scenes, satires, caricatures and landscapes.
1: Landscape with a country house, with figures and cattle by a stream, from "A Group of Landscapes (horizontal)," late 1750s, (Gunn 94).
2: A Homestead: an old woman driving a pig, from "A Group of Landscapes (horizontal)," late 1750s, (Gunn 93).
3: Landscape with a ruined castle, trees and cliffs, with figures, from "A Group of Landscapes (horizontal)," late 1750s (Gunn 91).
4: Moonlit River Scene, from "A group of Landscapes (horizontal)," late 1750s (Gunn 92).
5: Landscape with a Scottish tower house, cattle and figures, from "Scottish Landscapes (first set, oval)," 1750 (Gunn 73).
6: Tree in Landscape with distant castle on a cliff, from "Scottish Landscapes (first set, oval)," 1750 (Gunn 75).
7: Man on horseback approaching a tower house, from "Scottish Landscapes (first set, oval)," 1750 (Gunn 74).
8: A survey party in the Highlands, from "Scottish Landscapes (first set, oval)," 1750 (Gunn 76).
9: Women in a landscape with a ruined tower house in the distance, from "Scottish Landscapes (first set, oval)," 1750 (Gunn 77).
10: Francis Vivares, Landscape with woman and fisherman sitting on a riverbank (Gunn, p. 132 notes that this was added to Sandy's "Scottish landscapes (first set, oval), in some copies of his "The Book of Etchings"; it is not clear if Vivares commissioned the 1750 set, or added his name later to expand the set from five to six).
11: A child seated in a basket chair, holding a doll, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 50).
12: Old woman with a basket, three figures in the background, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 48).
13: A man with a basket, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 34).
14: Walking woman with a cloak, figures in the background, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 41).
15: Man leaning on a staff, buildings beyond, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 33).
16: Good Entertainment, a New Book of Figures–a stout man with a tankard outside an inn, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 51).
17: A man with a stick, possibly a beggar, and other figures, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 54).
18: Narcissus, after Jacopo Amigoni, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 70).
19: Two young ladies, ca. 1756, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 61); later state without numbers and letters.
20: A man with a basket on his back, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 36).
21: A man carrying a hod on his back, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 38).
22: John Balfour's Coffee House at Edinburgh, 1752, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 49).
23: A stout butcher with two other figures and a dog, from "Book of Etchings" (1765 with later issues) (Gunn 53).
24: Two men, a woman and a boy with a hoop, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 42).
25: A woman with a stick and a basket, a tower in the background, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 40).
26: Street scene at night with a sedan chair and figures, ca. 1758, from a group of "Night Scenes" (Gunn 65).
27: Milk–A woman carrying milk pails on a yoke, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 39).
28: A soldier with a musket on guard, a windmill in the background, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 37).
29: Man with a spade and a dog, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possible issued in a drawing book (Gunn 58).
30: Old man with a staff over his shoulder, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 35).
31: A group of figures in a landscape, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 43).
32: Two men with a dog, conversing, a woman in the distance, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 45).
33: A man with a barrow, a woman with a basket and other figures, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 44).
34: Two road builders, within a rococo border, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 60).
35: Three road builders, within a rococo border, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 59).
36: Two women and two children, one boy dressed as a soldier, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 63).
37: A woman with a child holding a hat, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 62).
38: Caricatured heads of a man and a woman, and the figure of a man with a leek or feather in his hat, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 46).
39:Three men in conversation beneath a tree, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 56).
40: A Book of Figures: two men, and a boy pulling at the jacket of one, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 55).
41: A sculptor with a sculpture of a bust of a woman, manière à lavis (Gunn 67).
42: A dairy maid and her lover (Gunn 69).
43: Seated lovers by a lake (Gunn 68).
44: Cart and horses, carter seated by the road (Gunn 103).
45: Landscape with a fortified building and travellers (Gunn 72).
46: Draped female figure carving a heart on an old tree (Gunn 95).
47: Chased by a bull (Gunn 96).
48: In the Meadows near Edinburgh, 1751, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 81).
49: Capriccio with Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's Sear, 1750, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 83).
50: Leith from Broughton, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 82).
51: Capriccio Landscape with the Mackenzie Monument, 1750, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 80).
52: The Hay Cart, beneath Calton Hill, 1750, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 79).
53: Scottish beggars resting by Broughton Well, 1750, from "Scottish Landscapes (second set vertical)," 1750-51 (Gunn 78).
54: The peep-show, ca. 1758, from a group of "Night Scenes" (Gunn 64).
55: A group of two women, one carrying a baby, a man and three children, from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 52).
56: Ruined abbey with travellers on the road, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 105).
57: The Cook, Captain & Mait [sic], "Etched from the Life on Board a Scotch Ship," from a group of "Figure Subjects," undated, possibly issued in a drawing book (Gunn 47)
58: Ruined Abbey, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 109).
59: Ruins by a river with a man in a boat, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 110).
60: Ruins with a seated man, a covered wagon in the distance, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 107).
61: Ruined abbey with cattle and a man chopping wood, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 106).
62: Ruins with two women washing clothes in a river, from a group of "Six Ruins," 1758 (Gunn 108).
63: A round tower outside a town, with figures, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 87).
64: Trees and huts with a distant view of town by a river, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 85).
65: Huddington, East Lothian, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 86).
66: Capriccio of Hamilton Collegiate Church with Edinburgh Castle in the distance, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 84).
67: Landscape with a ruined mill, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 89).
68: A woman washing cloths at the draw-well at Broughton, from "Scottish landscapes (third set, horizontal)," ca. 1751 (Gunn 88).
69: A Canteen tent, from a group of "Landscapes (horizontal)," late 1750s (Gunn 90)
70: Crossing the Bridge, 1758 (Gunn 102).

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