- Title:
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed [1818, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1818
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 62 × 92 inches (157.5 × 233.7 cm), Frame: 73 × 102 × 5 inches (185.4 × 259.1 × 12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "JMW Turner RA 1818"
Inscribed, lower right: "Dort"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.77
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.77FR
- Subject Terms:
- church | city | cityscape | cityscape | crowd | flags | flotsam | fruit | jars | marine art | market (event) | men | reflection | river | rowboats | rubbish | sea | seascape | ships | sunlight | vegetables | women
- Associated Places:
- Dordrecht | Dordrecht, Gemeente | Netherlands | Noord | Our Dear Lady Church | Rotterdam
- Access:
- On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
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:34
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