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Description: | Colour aquatint . The Welsh Bridge in the town of Shrewsbury connects the district of Frankwell with the town centre. The aquatint print of the old Welsh Bridge looks towards Frankwell from the town. The bridge supports a battlemented gatehouse with a round tower at the right corner and a half-timbered house. Several boats can be seen on the river, while a man mends a fishing net in the foreground, as a woman and child carrying baskets walk past.
The Welsh Bridge was a favourite subject of artist Paul Sandby. An engraving after his view of ‘The Welch [sic] Bridge at Shrewsbury’ was published a year before this work in 1777, having previously appeared in ‘Copper Plate Magazine’. There is also a Sandby drawing of the bridge, dated c.1800, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is similar to this aquatint and which may have been made as an exhibition piece. A further example, dated 1772, is in the collection at the Yale Center for British Art and Sandby’s watercolour view from the opposite end of the bridge is held at the British Museum. Despite the old Welsh Bridge being razed in 1782 and a new bridge being constructed on the site in the 1790s, Sandby continued to depict it until 1806. | Subjects: | rowing boat horse wagon house sailboat smoke topography girl 18th century costume woman basket bridge (urban) river bank dog townscape/cityscape chimney man river | Temporal: | 1778 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Paul Sandby | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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