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Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672), Sketch of a Man-O-War firing Guns, undated
- Title:
Sketch of a Man-O-War firing Guns
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 3/16 inches (22.5 × 15.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "[...]"; upper right: "[...]"; center: "7-51"; lower right: "A.17390"; in pen and black ink, lower right: "2.4.6. | [...]"
Watermark; collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5605
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- guns | man-of-war | marine art | ship
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14972
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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]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 145, cat. 8, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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