Print made by Charles Catton the elder RA, 1728–1798, British, The Margate Hoy, 1785
- Title:
- The Margate Hoy
- Date:
- 1785
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, aquatint and hand-coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 15/16 × 18 inches (30.4 × 45.7 cm), Image: 8 1/8 × 17 5/8 inches (20.7 × 44.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, upper left inside image" "THE MARGATE HOY"; lower left inside image: "C: Catton . S"; lower center inside image: "London Published 19th Aug 1785 by W. Hinton No 5 Sweetings Alley Royal Exhange Cornhill"; lower center inside image, painted or inked over with black, difficult to decipher: "Pub May 10 1785 | for the Proprietors | by Tho Ravenhill | N 91 Fleet Street | London"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11208
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bags | baskets | boat | bottles | buckets | caricature | coats | drinking | food | games | ill | marine art | obese | ribbons | sail | satire | scarves | sea | ship | sick | spoons | sunbonnets | tricorns | ugly | wine
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:30679
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