Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Title:
Celebration on the Thames near Whitehall
Date:
1685
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, graphite, and gray wash on two joined sheets of medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 3/8 inches (28.3 x 44.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.496
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
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)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)
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, p. 244, no. 8, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 139-140, Endpapers, cat. 3, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)R. Lowman, An exact narrative and description of the wonderfull and stupendious fire-works in honour of Their Majesties coronations, and for the high entertainment of Their Majesties, the nobility, and City of London, made on the Thames, and perform'd to the admiration and amazement of the spectators, on April the 24, 1685 , N. Thompson, London, 1685, p. 1, Available online in OrbisPaul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 8, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)