Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808, British, active in the East Indies (1796–1804)
Title:
Men-of-War and other Shipping on the Thames (most probably at Deptford)
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (10.8 × 29.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hands in pen and black ink bottom right: "Atkins"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.17
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | warships | seamen | river | marine art | oars | ships
Associated Places:
Deptford | Europe | Thames | London | Thames
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)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
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. 31, Vertical File V 2718 (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 273, 276, cat. 136, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)