[Shipping scene] [art original]

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Description

Title
[Shipping scene] [art original]
Alternative Title
Gale
Creator
Gore, Charles, 1729-1807, artist
Contributor
Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777.
Velde, Willem van de, 1633-1707, artist.
Published / Created
[1781]
Publication Place
England
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

Description
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].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance
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.
Extent
1 drawing : sheet 19 x 26.2 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 34 Box 3
Collection Title
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Collection / Other Creator
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Collection Date
[England], [not after 1806]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Pictorial works
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material
black and gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Shipping
Ships
Subjects
Shipping > Pictorial works
Ships > Pictorial works
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

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Rights
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Citation
Shipping Scene. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13088046
Object ID (OID)
16982164

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