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Creator:
Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Title:
The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes
Former Title(s):
The Ranger, private ship of war, with her prizes
Additional Title(s):

St Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla

St. Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm), Sheet: 15 × 21 inches (38.1 × 53.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "St. INNIS, Spanish Frigate, from MANILLA. | The RANGER | PRIVATE SHP OF WAR | WITH HER | PRIZES"; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "La Cigale | from St. Domingo."; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Le Compte D'Artois | From the East Indies"; inscribed in black ink, lower right: "Le Cantabre, | from Martinique"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "N . POCOCK"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "31"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "L 9817"

Signed and dated in black ink, lower right below image: "N Pocock Fl. | 1780"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4371
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
battle | boats | capture | clouds | dark | figures | flag | Grand Tour | gray | marine art | masts | navy | oceans | prizes | ropes | sails | schooners | sea | seamen | ships | sky | trophies | water | weather | wind
Associated Places:
Caribbean | East Indies | Europe | Martinique | Spain
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14191
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Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 30, V 2718 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 240, cat. 100, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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