Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (36.2 × 26 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in pen and black ink, lower center: "<Arthur> Joseph Severn | Low Tide, Falmouth Harbour. Caulking the Schooner. | On back of original frame (made by T.H.Gladwell, 21 Graceland Street) | a Sale date: Jan 9/97. | -room | Bought by me at Tunbridge Wells in 1943. Martin Hardie | In the batch of drawings from which this camel, by Joseph Severn, | were others made in Italy (Rome, etc.) which were of his more | conventional type. This untypical drawing (in a sense half way | between W. Muller & S. Sargent) was much more interesting."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection