1758
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ruins by a River with a Man in a Boat is a 1758 ink by Paul Sandby, a Romanticism work, depicting Ruins, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows crumbling stone walls near a slow river. A small boat carries one man. The trees are bare. The sky looks heavy. Paul Sandby made this in 1758. Etchings use acid to bite lines into metal plates. That gives soft edges here. The ruins feel old, almost forgotten. Look up etching to see why lines can look fuzzy.
Paul Sandby, (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English mapmaker and painter who specialised in landscape art. Along with his older brother Thomas Sandby, he was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
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