A Hoy and a Lugger with other Shipping on a Calm Sea
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (33.3 x 47.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.549
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)
Publications:
Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 73, 92, no. 61, pl. 41, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 90-91, no. 73, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 78-79, no. 32, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
From 1793 John Thomas Serres served as Marine Painter to King George III and from 1800 as Marine Draftsman to the Admiralty. In that role he was required to sail with naval vessels to sketch the coasts of France, Spain, and the Mediterranean to help the navy in its effort to contain Napoleon’s imperial ambitions. This watercolor could well have been made following one of these journeys, since the hoy and lugger are typical of the kinds of cargo and fishing boats that sailed in the same waters Serres traversed.\n\n Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)