Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 13/16 inches (19.7 x 27.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and gray ink, lower center: "Dutch Packet--"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1150
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sitting | ship | boat | sails | marine art | breeze | men | women | standing | water
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, pp. 68-9, no. 272, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 11 March 1969, Christie's, March 11, 1969, p. 25, lot 97, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, pp. 19, 41, fig. 33, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 78, 91, no. 52, pl. 54, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 23, no. 32, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 92-3, no. 75, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)