Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 inches (14.6 x 22.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower right: "RPB 182[...]"; inscribed on back in graphite upper left: "R.P.B. 1878"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2398
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
seagulls | shipping | people | estuaries | coastline | marine art | boats
Associated Places:
France | Europe | Quillebeuf-sur-Seine
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17)Richard Parkes Bonington (Yale Center for British Art, 1991-11-13 - 1992-01-19)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 292-93, no. 107, pl. 107, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, p. 104, no. 80, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 107, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 49, 93, no. 86, pl. 21, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)