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Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821

The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

1780

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Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821, The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes, 1780, Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.4371.
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  • Accession Number

    B1977.14.4371

  • Creator

    Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821

  • Title

    The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

  • Former Title(s)

    The Ranger, private ship of war, with her prizes

  • Additional Title(s)

    St Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla
    St. Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla

  • Date

    1780

  • Materials & Techniques

    Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper

  • Dimensions

    Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm), Sheet: 15 × 21 inches (38.1 × 53.3 cm)

  • Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering

    Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "St. INNIS, Spanish Frigate, from MANILLA. | The RANGER | PRIVATE SHP OF WAR | WITH HER | PRIZES"; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "La Cigale | from St. Domingo."; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Le Compte D'Artois | From the East Indies"; inscribed in black ink, lower right: "Le Cantabre, | from Martinique"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "N . POCOCK"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "31"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "L 9817"

    Signed and dated in black ink, lower right below image: "N Pocock Fl. | 1780"

  • Credit Line

    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Classification

    Drawings & Watercolors

  • Collection

    Prints and Drawings

  • Subject Terms

    battle | boats | capture | clouds | dark | figures | flag | Grand Tour | gray | marine art | masts | navy | oceans | prizes | ropes | sails | schooners | sea | seamen | ships | sky | trophies | water | weather | wind

  • Associated Places

    Caribbean | East Indies | Europe | Martinique | Spain

  • Access

    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Link

    https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14191

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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 30, V 2718 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 240, cat. 100, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Maria Delores Sanchez-Jauregul, The English prize, the capture of the Westmorland, an episode of the grand tour , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, pp. 32 [detail], 41, 42, 167-68, no. 4, fig. 23, N9135 .E54 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

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