- Creator:
- Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847, British
- Title:
- Seaman Holding a Monkey
- Date:
- 1816
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, ceam wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches (20 x 11.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Seaman for a | Wreck."; in graphite, on back, upper center: "29E | x"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.818
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- monkey (animal) | illustration | shipwreck | seaman | seaman | scarves (costume accessories) | trousers | shirt | figure study
- Currently On View:
- Not on view
- Publications:
- Christopher Plumb, The Georgian menagerie : exotic animals in eighteenth-century London, I.B. Tauris, London, 2015, p. 45, fig. 1, QL73.G72 L667 2015
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8474