Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Mabon, died 1798, British
Title:
Retreat Beating at Poona
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Image: 4 1/8 × 5 1/4 inches (10.5 × 13.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left; "No. 8"; inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Retreat beating at Poonah"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22384
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
military art | genre subject | trumpets | Indians | huts | retreat
Associated Places:
India | Maharashtra | Pune | Bharat | Asia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)

Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 349-50, 510, fig. 254, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)

Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 32, no. 97, V2359 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17747