- Title:
- Sweet William's Farewell to Black Eyed Susan
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31.2 × 46 cm), Plate: 11 1/2 × 14 1/8 inches (29.2 × 35.9 cm), Image: 10 1/4 × 13 3/4 inches (26 × 35 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image, lower left: "P. Monemie Pinxt. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament."; below: "O Susan, Susan Lovely Dear, | My Vows shall ever true remain; Let me Kifs off that falling Tear, | We only part to meet again; | Change as ye list ye Winds, my Heart shall be | The Faithful Compafs that still points to thee"; center: "Sweet William's Farewel | to | Black Eyed Sufan"; below: " London Printed for Bowles and Carver No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard & Robert Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill."; lower right: "Fourdrinier sculp from the Original in Vaux-hall Garden" ; below: "The Boatswain gave the dreadful Word, | Ths Sails their Swelling Bosom spread, | No longer must she stay aboard: | They kiss'd the Sigh'd, he hung his head: | Her lefs'ning Boat unwilling rows to Land, | Adieu; She cries, and wav'd her Lily Hand."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.13.141
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- marine art | rowboats | sails | sea | ships
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4535
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text), , New Haven, 2006, [p. 19], V 1699:1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, V 1699 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Jonathan Conlin, The pleasure garden , from Vauxhall to Coney Island, , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013, pp. 89-91, fig. 3.4, SB451.36.G7 P54 2013 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [Project Muse] [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 161, 163, cat. 23, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]