Watercolor and pen and brown, gray, and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 6 9/16 x 14 inches (16.7 x 35.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "Thomas Rowlandson/ Troops Embarking for [....] | on a River" ; in graphite, verso, lower right: [part of a numeral "1" inscribed in a circle]; in graphite, verso, center : 9160 (with 160 underlined); in graphite, lower left: "03239"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.33
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
windows | chimneys (architectural elements) | trees | houses | women | soldiers | military, the | men | oars | boats | ships | hats | uniforms, military | historical subject | marine art | crowd | sky
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Southampton | Hampshire | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Collection, 1990-02-10 - 1990-04-08)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Art Museum, 1990-04-21 - 1990-06-03)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
Mathew Thomas Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827, his life, art & acquaintance , Hogarth Arts, London, 2010, p. 175, fig. 72, NJ18 R79 P39 2010 (YCBA)