Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
The Bathing Place at Ramsgate
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.159
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
clouds | horses (animals) | port | flags | genre subject | nude | carts | carriages | costume | sea | cliff | men | women | washing | swimming | geology | bathers | children | babies | mothers | leisure
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Thanet, Isle of | Ramsgate | Kent
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, pp. 221, 397, p. 15 in unnumered plate section between pp. 270 and 271, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)

Allan Brodie, Georgian sea bathing : a battle between health and mirth?, Georgian Group Journal, vol. 30, 2022, p. 5, fig. 1, NA966 .G46 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 31, no. 231, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)

John Galt, The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, 1820, p. 230, ND237 W45 G4 (YCBA) in Rare Books and Manuscripts

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 70, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil), From the XVIth century to the XIXth century , 8 v., F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, London, UK, 1957, p. 221 (v.3), ND1354 G73 1957 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 52, 127, no. II.3, pl. 41, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 43 (v.1), no. 161, pl. 66, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 32, 74, no. 12, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catatogue : Catalogue of fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings and drawings : 18 March 1964, Sotheby's, London, March 18, 1964, p. 29 opposite p. 29, Lot 81, Auction catalogues (YCBA)

Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, p. 427, no. 467, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 58 (v.1), no. 217, pl. 66, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:375