Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "St. INNIS, Spanish Frigate, from MANILLA. | The RANGER | PRIVATE SHP OF WAR | WITH HER | PRIZES"; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "La Cigale | from St. Domingo."; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Le Compte D'Artois | From the East Indies"; inscribed in black ink, lower right: "Le Cantabre, | from Martinique"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "N . POCOCK"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "31"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "L 9817"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4371
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
trophies | dark | oceans | wind | masts | sails | figures | marine art | flag | sky | seamen | prizes | water | ropes | ships | gray | weather | schooners | clouds | navy | sea | boats | capture | Grand Tour | battle
Associated Places:
Spain | East Indies | Europe | Caribbean | Martinique
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:
Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 30, Vertical File V 2718 (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 240, cat. 100, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Maria Delores Sanchez-Jauregul, The English prize, the capture of the Westmorland, an episode of the grand tour , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, pp. 32 [detail], 41, 42, 167-68, no. 4, fig. 23, N9135 .E54 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)