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)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.194
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)
