Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 12 1/2 inches (20.5 × 31.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "D507 | H W Bunbury 1750-1811 | LGD | Patience in a Punt | Rowlandson made a coloured etching | based on this watercolor"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.694
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
bird | fishing rods | fishing | water | men | trees | plants | building | sporting art | boat | caricature | punt
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
British Drawings and Water-Colours in an American Collection-, Illustrated London News, vol.240,no. 6403, April 21, 1962, p.627, Available Online: Illus.London News Hist. ArchiveStephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 26, 45, no. 51, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 205, no. 411, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)