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Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British, Shipping off Dover, 1738
- Title:
Shipping off Dover
- Former Title(s):
Shipping off an Imaginary View of Dover, signed and dated 1738
- Date:
- 1738
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left center: "S. Scott 1738"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.562
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.562FR
- Subject Terms:
- barges (flat-bottomed watercraft) | cliffs | flags | full-rigged ships | marine art | men | port | ships | sloops (sailing vessels) | smoke | town
- Associated Places:
- Dover | Dover castle | Dover, Strait of | England | English Channel | Europe | Kent | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1043
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 196-197, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Kingzett, Catalogue of the Works of Samuel Scott, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 48, Walpole Society, Oxford, 1982, p. 22, Marine Q, 6a, N12 W35 A1 48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
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