Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847, British, Seaman Holding a Monkey, 1816
- Title:
- Seaman Holding a Monkey
- Additional Title(s):
- Seaman for a Wreck
- Date:
- 1816
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, ceam wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches (20 x 11.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Seaman for a | Wreck."; in graphite, on back, upper center: "29E | x"
signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "J. Cristall 1816."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.818
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figure study | illustration | monkey (animal) | scarves (costume accessories) | seaman | seaman | shipwreck | shirt | trousers
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8474
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Christopher Plumb, The Georgian menagerie : exotic animals in eighteenth-century London, I.B. Tauris, London, 2015, p. 45, fig. 1, QL73.G72 L667 2015 [ORBIS]
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