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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, A Dutch Packet in a Rising Breeze, 1791

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Creator:

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Title:

A Dutch Packet in a Rising Breeze

Date:

1791

Materials & Techniques:

Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 13/16 inches (19.7 x 27.5 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and gray ink, lower center: "Dutch Packet--"

Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Rowlandson 1791"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B2001.2.1150

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46459

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For such a keen observer of all aspects of contemporary life as Thomas Rowlandson, ships and sailors and the bustling lie-and lowlife- of ports and harbors provided an inexhaustible source of subject matter. Rowlandson visited Holland and Germany in 1791. From that tour comes this shipboard view of a Dutch packet-boat crossing the Channel, conveying vividly both the pleasure and the discomfort inherent in such a voyage.

Scott Wilcox

Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 93 cat. no. 75

Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, pp. 68-9, no. 272, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 11 March 1969, Christie's, March 11, 1969, p. 25, lot 97, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, pp. 19, 41, fig. 33, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 78, 91, no. 52, pl. 54, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 23, no. 32, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 92-3, no. 75, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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