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Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain, Moonlight, 1745
- Title:
Moonlight
- Additional Title(s):
Clair de lune
Moon Light
Moon-light
- Date:
- 1745
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm), Image: 10 9/16 × 14 15/16 inches (26.9 × 38 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, upper left: "12"; lower left: "P. Monamy pinx. | Moon Light. | From a Painting in the Collection of Alexander Stuart Esqr."; lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 21 Febry 1745-6 | Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill."; lower right: "Canot Sculp. | Clair de Lune."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11971
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arch | baskets | boats | boots | bridge (built work) | buildings | city | cityscape | coast | coats | evening | flags | galleons | genre subject | gesture | hats | labor | marine art | masts | men | men-of-war | moon | moonlight | nets (objects) | night | oars | poles | rowboats | rowing | sailboats | sails | sea | seamen | ships | shore (landform) | trousers | workers | working
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31758
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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]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 168, 169, cat. 33, no. 33, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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