Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.723a
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
ship of the line | allegory | Union Jack | lighthouse | carriage | luggers | flags | marine art | shore (landform) | dark | seascape | galleon | coast | science | fishing | ships | water | mountain | meteorology | fishermen | clouds | sloop (sailing vessel) | schooners | sea | storm
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Publications:
Christie's Sale Catalogue: 12 July 1990, Christie's, 1990, Lot 64, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 224-226, cat. 87, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Alex Kidson, Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 298, fig. 123, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)Sarah ( Sarah Helen ) Monks, Fishy Business, Richard Wright's The Fisher (1764), Marine Painting, and the Limits of Refinement in Eighteenth-Century London , Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 41, Spring 2008, pp. 405 -421, fig. 1, 3, 4, NX 452 E54 (YCBA) Also available online: see OrbisPaul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings : 23 November 1966, Sotheby's, London, November 23, 1966, p. 13, lot 42, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, p. 430, ND466 +W38 Oversize (YCBA)