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Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British, The Fishery, 1768
- Title:
The Fishery
- Date:
- 1768
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm), Plate: 17 5/8 × 22 1/4 inches (44.8 × 56.5 cm), Image: 15 1/2 × 21 inches (39.4 × 53.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right; "PM 2679"
Lettered, lower left: "Rich'd. Wright pinx."; lettered, lower center: "THE FISHERY. | To SIR John hort Bart. His Majesty's Consul General at Lisbon | This Plate is Inscribed by his Obliged Humble Servt. Wm. Woollett. | The Picture from which this plate was Engraved, obtained the First Premium in 1764, from the Society of Arts, &c. Published as the Act directs, 30 June, 1768; and Sold by W. Woollett in Green Street, Leicester Fields, & T. Bradford, No.132 in Fleet Street, LONDON."; lettered, lower right: "Wm. Woollett Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.723b
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | carriage | clouds | coast | dark | fishermen | fishing | flags | galleon | lighthouse | luggers | marine art | meteorology | mountain | schooners | science | sea | seascape | ship of the line | ships | shore (landform) | sloop (sailing vessel) | storm | Union Jack | water
- Associated People:
- Neptune
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43013
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