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Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821, British, The Mars in Three Positions, 1779
- Title:
The Mars in Three Positions
- Date:
- 1779
- Medium:
- Gray wash and pen and black ink on medium, slightly texture, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 × 21 1/8 inches (38.1 × 53.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: "THE MARS PRIVATE SHIP OF WAR JOHN CHILCOT COMMANDER."
Watermark
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, lower right: "Nicholas Pocock fct. 1779"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2008.30.28
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | coat of arms | commander | crest | flags | marine art | men | military art | sailboat | sails | sea | seascape | ships | warship
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:60760
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Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 240, 201 (fn 1), ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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