View at Chelsea of the Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 16 5/8 inches (27.8 × 42.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "View at Chelsea on the 1st of August"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "03443"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "9 78 | 36"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "E.F. Burney | View of Chelsea on the 1st of august | Race for Doggett's Coach & Badge | from an old portfolio of E. F. Burney's drawings"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.695
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | people | water | race (event) | women | bridge (built work) | buildings | trees | wall | sporting art | badge | landscape | boats | coat | crowd | sculling
Associated Places:
Greater London | Chelsea | Europe | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 122, 369, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAJustin Lovill, 1776 : A London Chronicle or How to Divert Oneself while Losing an Empire, The Bunbury Press, London, 2019, p. 19, DA682 .L66 2019 (LC) (YCBA)