Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786, British
Title:
A Calm Day in the Anchorage
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (26 x 36.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and black ink lower left: "Jn. Cleveley"; inscribed on back in graphite lower right: "F/M", encircled "60", encircled "15", "John Cleveley | S.Lot 58 | 10.11.65 | Cost EON l- l- | Pain"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2008.30.21
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
birds | water | reflections | figures | boats | sails
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

Seascapes - Marine Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-05-28 - 2009-08-23)
Publications:
Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 31, V 2718 (YCBA)

Christie's (UK), Christie's Sale Catalogue: British Art on Paper. 16 November 2006, Christie's, 2006, p. 112, GeorgeLot. 129, fig. 129, Sales Catalogue (YCBA)

Eleanor Hughes, Seascapes : marine paintings and watercolors from the U Collection [wall labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. [11], V 2165 (YCBA)

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 273, 275, cat. 135, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:60753