Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825, British
Title:
The Bolt Head, West North West (one of five drawings on one mount)
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (7.9 × 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "The Bolt Head W N W." Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Pl1|2|"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1590
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
ship | marine art | landscape | cliffs | sea
Associated Places:
Devon | Salcombe | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 222, cat. 83, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13090