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- Title:
The Fishery
- Date:
- ca. 1764
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.723a
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.723aFR
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | carriage | clouds | coast | dark | fishermen | fishing | flags | galleon | lighthouse | luggers | marine art | meteorology | mountain | schooners | science | sea | seascape | ship of the line | ships | shore (landform) | sloop (sailing vessel) | storm | Union Jack | water
- Associated People:
- Neptune
- 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:1180
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Christie's Sale Catalogue: 12 July 1990, Christie's, 1990, Lot 64, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 224-226, cat. 87, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Alex Kidson, Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 298, fig. 123, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sarah ( Sarah Helen ) Monks, Fishy Business, Richard Wright's The Fisher (1764), Marine Painting, and the Limits of Refinement in Eighteenth-Century London , Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 41, Spring 2008, pp. 405 -421, fig. 1, 3, 4, NX 452 E54 (YCBA) Also available online: see Orbis [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings : 23 November 1966, Sotheby's, London, November 23, 1966, p. 13, lot 42, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, p. 430, ND466 +W38 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]