Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Sandby Paul P. S. ; 1725 in Nottingham 1809 London brother Thomas Sandby (1721-1798), who worked as guard in the King's Garden at Windsor United Kingdom Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) ; in the 1750s involved in the campaign to found the Royal Academy; in 1768 appointed drawing master to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; architectural, technical, topographical, and natural history drawing ; landscape painting ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sandby w. further links ; http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/nov/07/paul-sandby-exhibition-linda-colley ; Sidney Lee in DNB 50 1897: 251-4 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 3110 ; Klingender 1968/74: 65, 73; 76-9, 84, 91, 130, 252, figures 9 & 18 ; cf. also www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=108719 ;
Introduced the aquatint technique to England in 1776. 40177460 209903217
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