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Description: | A busy street scene with large trees to left and right, and a church dominating the centre of the picture. A road leads from foreground left to the centre-right distance, where it forks. The main focus of the picture are two horses on the track, both with riders. One is bucking towards the second, which is rearing up, it’s rider with a walking stick held high. There are pigs and a dog running amongst the horses' legs. A group watches from the right. The road to the right is edged with two-storey houses. To the foreground left, a woman rides on a donkey, driving at least two others. She looks back to a child and a man walking behind her, the man smoking a pipe and carrying a basket on his back. Behind them is a wooden fence, and more church buildings.
Printed across bottom 'P.Sandby Fecit 1782/CEMETARY GATE OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S MONASTERY AT CANTERBURY/Publish'd by P.Sandby St. Georges Row, North side of Hyde Park May 1789' Sir Charles Rich (donor's husband d. <1935) 'descended on his mother's side from the Sandbys ... was the last surviving relative of the family. He had pictures given him by various members of the family - and inherited some from Mr. William Sandby who lent a number to the 'Special Exhibition of Drawings and Pictures by Paul & Thomas Sandby [Castle Mus. 1884]'
Accession number: NCM 1945-173 | Subjects: | animals topography horses religious architecture (christian) figures street scenes | Temporal: | 1782 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | by SANDBY/Paul | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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