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Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Title:

View at Chelsea of the Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 16 5/8 inches (27.8 × 42.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "View at Chelsea on the 1st of August"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "03443"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "9 78 | 36"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "E.F. Burney | View of Chelsea on the 1st of august | Race for Doggett's Coach & Badge | from an old portfolio of E. F. Burney's drawings"

Watermark: Whatman

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.695
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
badge | boats | bridge (built work) | buildings | coat | crowd | landscape | men | people | race (event) | sculling | sporting art | trees | wall | water | women
Associated Places:
Chelsea | England | Europe | Greater London | United Kingdom
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47336
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Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 122, 369, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]

Justin Lovill, 1776 : A London Chronicle or How to Divert Oneself while Losing an Empire, The Bunbury Press, London, 2019, p. 19, DA682 .L66 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]


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