John Varley, 1778–1842, British, Boat Building, 1806
- Title:
- Boat Building
- Date:
- 1806
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, gum and scraping out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 7/16 x 21 9/16 inches (34.2 x 54.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "J. Varley. 1806."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.151
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | baskets | beams | birds | boat | boatbuilding | dog (animal) | fishing tackle | genre subject | labor | laborers | logs | men | road | rope | shipbuilders | shipyard | wood | workers | working
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12119
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 182, no. V.9, pl. 156, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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