Creator: John Varley, 1778–1842, British Title: Boat Building Date: 1806 Materials & Techniques: Watercolor, gum and scraping out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper Dimensions: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 21 9/16 inches (34.2 x 54.8 cm) Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering: signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "J. Varley. 1806." Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright Status: Public Domain Accession Number: B1975.3.151 Classification: Drawings & Watercolors Collection: Prints and Drawings Subject Terms: laborers | shipbuilders | labor | working | baskets | birds | dog (animal) | architectural subject | logs | boat | genre subject | rope | shipyard | fishing tackle | road | wood | beams | boatbuilding | men | workers Currently On View: Not on view Exhibition History: Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) Publications: Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 182, no. V.9, pl. 156, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) Link: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12119