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THE PRINTS OF PAUL SANDBY
1730 - 1809
Founder member of the Royal Academy
SARAH BAYNTON-WILLIAMS'
COLLECTION OF
PRINTED WORKS
8th December - 22nd January 2011
Horsham Museum & Art Gallery
9 Causeway
Horsham
RH12 1HE
www.horshammuseum.org
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Sandby was an extremely talented artist,
perhaps best known for his watercolours that earned him the title father of the watercolour. Although his printmaking was no less talented
and was extremely influential in Britain, his prints do not attract
the attention they deserve, and to this day there are some people who
are dismissive of the craft of printmaking. Anyone who visits this
exhibition who has any doubt about Sandby's ability to make wonderful
prints would quickly see this man in a new light. He started by
making etchings of his environment in Scotland, working as a draughtsman
on the Great Survey of Scotland, after the 1745 rebellion, when Sandby
was only sixteen years old. The first known etching is of a man and a
woman on a seat; dated 1747. Later on Sandby was told the method of aquatint,
a printing method that perfectly suited Sandby's landscapes. In the exhibition
there are nine of the aquatints of north and south Wales, the first
series of aquatints to be printed in Britain, splendid works of art,
showing the Welsh landscape as never before. The exhibition includes
other etchings, aquatints and engravings by Sandby. It was unusual for
a watercolour artist to make prints in any method, more often leaving
printmaking to the professionals: Sandby had the ability to master all
three of those methods.
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Sarah Baynton-Williams
hanging the exhibition
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