[Shipping scene] [art original] / Charles Gore del.
- Creator:
- Gore, Charles, 1729-1807, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1781]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : black and gray wash on laid paper ; sheet 19 x 26.2 cm
- Notes:
- Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made.
Signed by the artist in ink on verso.
Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656.
Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773.
Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954. - Abstract:
- Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised.
- Variant Titles:
- Gale
- Topics:
- Drawing, English--18th century.
Shipping--Pictorial works.
Ships--Pictorial works. - Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777.
Velde, Willem van de, 1633-1707, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Wash drawings--British--18th century.
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 34 Box 3
- Orbis Record:
- 13088046
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25652
- Citation:
- Shipping Scene. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193677
- PID:
- digcoll:4048059
