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- Title:
Two Boats with Crews, Study for The Royal William at Sea
- Additional Title(s):
Study for A Flagship Shortening Sail
Verso: Graphite Tracing of Recto
A Study of Two Boats Coming alongside the ' Royal Wiliam '
Two Boats coming alongside a First Rater
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Brushed black ink, gray wash and graphite; verso: graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (14.6 x 27.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "D 742 | Dominic Serres RA.(?) 1722-1793 | L GD"; in graphite, upper right: "22 x 16"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5136
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | marine art | men | oars | rope | sea | sword
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14634
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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]
Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 67, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, pp. 17, 42, cat. no. 78, Pl. 78, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf [YCBA]
English Drawings and Watercolours from the Mellon Collection, The Times (London), issue no. 56195, December 15, 1964, p. 6, Available online: The Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 199, cat. 58, no. 58, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Kingzett, Catalogue of the Works of Samuel Scott, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 48, Walpole Society, Oxford, 1982, pp. 92 -93, D76, N12 W35 A1 48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 71, 90, no. 16, pl. 33, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, Cat. No. 67, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]