Antiquarian Topographical Prints 1550-1850 (As they relate to castle studies) ● Anton van den Wyngaerde (1525 - 1571) was a prolific Flemish topographical artist who made panoramic sketches and paintings of towns in the southern , northern , , , and . He is best known for many panoramas of cities in Spain that he drew while employed by Philip II. After his death, his works were dispersed into different collections, and their importance neglected. Their historical and artistic value have been recently rediscovered. In England he drew scenes: Old London Bridge (1554-7) The White Tower 1544, Whitehall Palace, Greenwich,Hampton Court and Oatlands palaces and a panoramic view of castle and port (1555-9) Individual Buildings, townscapes and panoramas. Most of these are held at the Ashmolean Museum.

Fig. 28. Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, 1544. Sketch view of the Tower of London from the south. The ogee cupolas and vanes were added to the White Tower in 1532-3. Note the clear view of the rectangular form of the 12th century forebuilding to the White Tower and the clear details of the ‘bulwark’ at the head of the Outer Barbican. From the Sutherland Collection. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Below: detail of St. Thomas’s Tower (1275-79), and the Lanthorn Tower (gutted by fire in 1774, and rebuilt in the C19)..

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Fig. 29. Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, 1558. Dover castle from the SW (cropped). Dover from the Sea (W A. Suth.B.1.71). © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image). Tower 1 is probably the Pencester Tower, 2, the walled passage, 3, Palace Gate?

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