Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 x 11 9/16 inches (20.3 x 29.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "The Custom House at Boulogne"; in gray-black ink, verso, lower center: "the Custom House at Boulogne"; in gray-black ink, verso, lower right: "[L?] 9.19,.6"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1721
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
travellers | luggage | dog (animal) | customs houses | hats | women | men | horses (animals) | stagecoach | genre subject | square (open space) | grand tours
Associated Places:
Boulogne | Europe | France
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 281-3, fig. 15, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 36-7, 82, no. 31, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 281-2, fig. 15, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)