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- Title:
The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes
- Former Title(s):
The Ranger, private ship of war, with her prizes
- Additional Title(s):
St Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla
St. Innis, Spanish Frigate, from Manilla
- Date:
- 1780
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm), Sheet: 15 × 21 inches (38.1 × 53.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "St. INNIS, Spanish Frigate, from MANILLA. | The RANGER | PRIVATE SHP OF WAR | WITH HER | PRIZES"; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "La Cigale | from St. Domingo."; inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Le Compte D'Artois | From the East Indies"; inscribed in black ink, lower right: "Le Cantabre, | from Martinique"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "N . POCOCK"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on mount: "31"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "L 9817"
Signed and dated in black ink, lower right below image: "N Pocock Fl. | 1780"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4371
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- battle | boats | capture | clouds | dark | figures | flag | Grand Tour | gray | marine art | masts | navy | oceans | prizes | ropes | sails | schooners | sea | seamen | ships | sky | trophies | water | weather | wind
- Associated Places:
- Caribbean | East Indies | Europe | Martinique | Spain
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14191
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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]
Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 30, Vertical File V 2718 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 240, cat. 100, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Maria Delores Sanchez-Jauregul, The English prize, the capture of the Westmorland, an episode of the grand tour , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, pp. 32 [detail], 41, 42, 167-68, no. 4, fig. 23, N9135 .E54 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]