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- Title:
Church Hope, the Island of Portland, Dorset
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: View from Portland of the Chesil Bank
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (15.6 × 21.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper left to right: "Church Hope at the back of the Island - where Govener Penn has a house [...] I [...] Quarries & remarkable Subsidence."; on verso in pen and brown ink, upper left to right: "Spanish Lake near I Church Hope at the back of the Island where is the govenors house I and a great Quarry - as well as remarkable subsidence.";in graphite, lower right: "view from Portland of Chesil Bank"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "view from Portland at the Chesil Bank."; in graphite, center: "Ferry Land"; in graphite, center left: "Chesil Bank 16 Miles Long"; in graphite, lower left: "[...] of Chesil, [...]"; in graphite, lower right: "[...] | Portery Castle"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2571
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boat | cliffs | coast | figures | island | landscape | rocks (landforms)
- Associated Places:
- Dorset | England | Europe | Portland | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8707
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