In 1747, a young Paul Sandby took up the role of chief draughtsman on the Military Survey of North Britain undertaken by the Board of Ordnance. This ambitious mapping project was part of a series of measures directed at ‘pacifying’ the Scottish highlands in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, linking with a large-scale road building programme and the planning of new settlements. In his work for the Board, Sandby was employed in projecting as well as recording the progress of these improvements. Taking forward issues the authors first addressed in the catalogue to a 2009 exhibition of Sandby’s art, this article reviews the artist’s work in North Britain and its role in the remaking of the nation state, locating it in relation to various designs on the landscape. It focuses on drawings made in connection with ‘Utopian’ improvement schemes for planned settlements: firstly, in prospects of the west-coast town of Inveraray, made in collaboration with Sandby’s elder brother Thomas, and secondly, in a view of a surveying party at work near Loch Rannoch, in the southern highlands. They are works which open up wider perspectives on the roles of drawing and design in the period, raising questions too about the significance and scope of the ‘topographical’ as a genre.

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景观设计：北不列颠的保罗和托马斯桑比

1747 年，年轻的保罗·桑比 (Paul Sandby) 在军械委员会 (Board of Ordnance) 进行的北不列颠军事调查中担任首席绘图员。这个雄心勃勃的测绘项目是 1745 年雅各布派叛乱后旨在“安抚”苏格兰高地的一系列措施的一部分，与大规模道路建设计划和新定居点的规划有关。在为董事会工作时，Sandby 受雇于计划和记录这些改进的进度。将作者在目录中首次在 2009 年 Sandby 艺术展览中提出的问题向前推进，这篇文章回顾了这位艺术家在北不列颠的作品及其在民族国家重建中的作用，将其与景观上的各种设计联系起来。它侧重于与计划定居点的“乌托邦”改善计划相关的图纸：首先，与 Sandby 的哥哥 Thomas 合作制作的西海岸小镇 Inveraray 的前景，其次，考虑到一个调查小组在在南部高地兰诺赫湖附近工作。这些作品为当时绘画和设计的作用开辟了更广阔的视野，也引发了关于“地形”作为一种体裁的重要性和范围的问题。