View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches (23.8 x 66.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: "J.T. Serres"; not dated
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.194
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
crowd | boats | sea | island | castle | sailboat | marine art
Associated Places:
Guernsey | Saint Peter Port | United Kingdom | Channel Islands | Castle Cornet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)
Publications:
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 273, 276, cat. 137, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 75, 92, no. 60, pl. 44, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 90, no. 72, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This watercolor sits securely in the intersection of naval draftsmanship and the genre of marine painting. John Thomas Serres, the son of Dominic Serres, a founding member of the Royal Academy, both marine painters, may have produced studies for this work when he set out in 1799 to draw topographical profiles of the coasts of France and England under commission from the Admiralty. The ship in which he made the cruise, the Clyde, is shown to the left, along with other vessels of the squadron. Gallery label for Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)