| Method | Steel engraving |
| Artist | Benjamin Winkles after Michael Gandy |
| Published | R.A. Sprigg, Library of Science & Art, 106 Gt. Russel Street, near the Museum [1842] |
| Dimensions | Image 298 x 396 mm, Sheet 362 x 455 mm |
| Notes |
A decorative architectural plate of Windsor Castle grotesque, from Architectural Illustrations of Windsor Castle by Michael Gandy and Benjamin Baud, Architects. The plate, one of forty from the work, depicts the grotesques on the East Front of the Castle. The specific locations and layouts of the grotesques are indicated by inset text above each. Gandy and Baud's publication was the rival to a similar illustrated work by Henry Ashton, published in place of a planned work by the architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville, who had died before completing his own book two years earlier. Gandy and Baud had both worked alongside Wyatville, and evidently felt it necessary to exert their legitimacy over that of Ashton, as the inscription space below the work adds after Gandy's name that he spent '33 Years with the late Sir J. Wyatville.' Benjamin Winkles (fl.1830-1845) was a British engraver, most well known for his collaboration with his kinsman Henry Winkles on Winkles Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales. Condition: Minor time toning and water-staining to sheet. Large foxing stain to bottom right corner of image, covering dragon grotesque. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £50.00 |
| Stock ID | 39908 |