- Creator:
- Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
- Title:
- A Project for the Monument of the Apotheosis of Nelson
- Date:
- 1806
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 23 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (60.3 × 31.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Lettered inside image in pen and brown ink, upper center: "VISCOUNT | NELSON | TRAFALGAR | [CO]PENHAGEN | NILE"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.199
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figures | column (architectural element) | wings | apotheosis | shield | historical subject | design | lion | monument
- Currently On View:
- Not on view
- Publications:
- Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, p. 222, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12142