Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British, A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland, 1780
- Title:
- A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland
- Date:
- 1780
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "T. Luny 1780"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.434
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.434FR
- Subject Terms:
- boat | breeze | cliffs | clouds | cutter (sailing vessel) | flags | full-rigged ships | lighthouse | longboats | marine art | packet (watercraft) | rowboat | sailboat | sea | seamen | ship's boat | ships | shore (landform) | sloop (sailing vessel) | waves (natural events) | waves (natural events)
- Associated Places:
- Dover | Dover castle | England | Kent | South Foreland | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:918
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
The large cutter in stern view at center, towing a boat, is probably a packet, running official postal and passenger service on a regular route. The large ship’s boat in the right foreground carries men who are raising its anchor (or recovering one). This is the roadstead off Walmer and Deal, between the east Kent coast and the Goodwin Sands, which was the main sailing anchorage and rendezvous between the Thames and the English Channel. A Royal Navy two-decker at far right flies the flag (red at the fore) of a Vice Admiral of the Red, possibly as senior officer stationed there. The South Foreland light is prominent on the chalk cliffs, with Dover Castle seen above those further west, at far left. An original inscription on the back reads “South Foreland / View of the Downs.” Gallery label for Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 152-153, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Seascapes : Yale Center for British Art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. [6 ], no. 23, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 194-195, 216, cat. 76, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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