A View of Pontefract Castle c.1625-30
Oil on canvas | 115.4 x 106.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404974
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A view of Pontefract Castle from the south-east, with cottages grouped around it; in the foreground are figures, including a shepherd piping to his flock and travellers arriving at an inn on the right
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Charles I; sold for £5 to Embree 24 May 1650 from Hampton Court (no 130); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the Passage Room between the Queen's Dressing Room and Bedchamber at Hampton Court in 1688 (no 1041)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
115.4 x 106.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
128.6 x 119.1 x 7.5 cm (frame, external)
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