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- Title:
On the Thames
- Additional Title(s):
Thames Fishermen, no. 1
Thames Fisherman
Les Pêcheurs de la Tamise
- Date:
- 1859
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm), Plate: 5 11/16 x 8 1/2 inches (14.4 x 21.6 cm), Image: 5 11/16 x 8 1/2 inches (14.4 x 21.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right, written vertically upwards: "767"; inscribed in graphite, center right: "[...]" (cut off edge of sheet); inscribed in graphite, lower left on sheet: "A. [...] [?Delatre]. Seymour Haden."; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "spec 72" (underlined); inscribed in graphite, center left on back, written vertically downwards: "767"; inscribed in graphite, lower center on back: "42" (underlined); inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "[...]" (cut off edge of sheet); inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "35/75."; inscribed in graphite, lower center on back: "1965.118.1"
Marked in gray ink, lower right below image: "YB" stamped in monogram (this is the collector's mark of Alfred Beurdeley)
Lettered lower left within image: "On the Thames | F S Haden 1859"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.984
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- banks | birds | boats | distance | fishermen | fishing | fishing rod | genre subject | landscape | reeds | reflections | river | shadows | sporting art | trees | water
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Thames | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:37800
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