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- Title:
The Bathing Place at Ramsgate
- Date:
- ca. 1788
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.159
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.159FR
- Subject Terms:
- babies | bathers | carriages | carts | children | cliff | clouds | costume | flags | genre subject | geology | horses (animals) | leisure | men | mothers | nude | port | sea | swimming | washing | women
- Associated Places:
- England | Kent | Ramsgate | Thanet, Isle of | 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:375
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