Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British
Title:
Bay Scene in Moonlight
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower right: "J. Smith 1787"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4383
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
moon | sky | clouds | rocks (landforms) | lake | bay (body of water) | nighttime | child | man | woman | boats | ship | landscape
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

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)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 269, no. 58, pl. 58, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 126-127, no. II.1, pl. 103, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 58, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 41, 91, no. 48, pl. 17, 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. 86, 92-3, no. 74, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8244