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John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786

An English Frigate and Other Shipping in the Solent off Calshot Castle

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This watercolor captures the light of a breezy day, with its patches of sunshine and seagulls wheeling overhead. The freshness of the representation belies its geopolitical significance: the round tower built by Henry VIII at the opening of the River Solent, farther along the south coast, had been in nearly constant use as a defensive structure since the sixteenth century, and, as the smoke from its chimney and the activity around it suggest, was in use into the later eighteenth century.

Gallery label for Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

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John Cleveley the younger, An English Frigate and Other Shipping in the Solent off Calshot Castle, undated, Watercolor and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends, B2008.30.30.
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This watercolor captures the light of a breezy day, with its patches of sunshine and seagulls wheeling overhead. The freshness of the representation belies its geopolitical significance: the round tower built by Henry VIII at the opening of the River Solent, farther along the south coast, had been in nearly constant use as a defensive structure since the sixteenth century, and, as the smoke from its chimney and the activity around it suggest, was in use into the later eighteenth century.

Gallery label for Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

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. 273, 275, cat. 134, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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