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- Title:
Straits of Sunda
- Former Title(s):
An Album of sixteen Marine Views of Islands and Ports on the Voyage from England to China: Madiera South East Extremity
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1793
- Medium:
- Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "Straits of Sunda"; below: "No. 1 rather distant SE 1/2 [?]"; upper right: "Prince Island"; center left: "No 1."; lower left: "No 2"; lower center: "dark green trees"; lower right: "S 20 E dist. [...]"
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, lower right: "HW Parish 1793"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2177
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:58504
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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. 217, cat. 77, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]