unknown artist, Fishing Cove near Columbo, undated
- Title:
- Fishing Cove near Columbo
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 13/16 × 19 5/16 inches (37.7 × 49 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "Fishing Cove near Columbo"; on back, lower right: "54 (encircled)"; on back of mount, on attached sheet, center: "D3554/ | William Hodges RA 1744-1797 | fishing cove near Columbo. Now the site of a | fashionable hotel. 1780. | [...] | NOT by Hodges. See DFS note on back of mat g D.3555"; on back of mount, lower center: "English School | Fishing Cove near Columbo (D.3554)"
Unidentified mark, verso
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5431
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beach | canoes | clouds | coastline | cove | fishing | genre subject | harbor | hills | huts | labor | landscape | loincloths | masts | men | natives | palm trees | pipe | sailboats | sails | sash | shore (landform) | snake | snake charmer | turbans | working
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Western Province
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14877
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