- Title:
Gentlemen Fishing
- Former Title(s):
The Fishing Party - a Party of Gentlemen fishing from a Punt
- Date:
- 1794
- Medium:
- Oil on slate
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/8 x 17 inches (30.8 x 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in white paint, lower left: "B. West | 1794"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.289
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.289FR
- Subject Terms:
- boat | fishing | fishing line | genre subject | men | recreation | river | water | wind
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42759
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, p. 221, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 417, 422, 425, no. 446, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 55, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]