FDA-D.109-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.109-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Clipper in a High Sea
Cutter with shipping off Calais Harbour (Ships outside Calais harbour)
Cutter with shipping off Calais Harbour (Ships outside Calais harbour)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title
Comments
Although the mount gives the artist as 'Richard Parkes Bonnington', in fact this work is copied from Bonnington's watercolour view titled Shipping in High Seas.
The copyist, probably Charles Bentley, may have used the 1830 lithographic print of Bonnington's original, by printmaker J.D. Harding, as his inspiration. But here the distant ships have been moved to the left and a view of Gorleston Harbour, on the East Anglian coast, has been added to the right of the composition.
The copyist, probably Charles Bentley, may have used the 1830 lithographic print of Bonnington's original, by printmaker J.D. Harding, as his inspiration. But here the distant ships have been moved to the left and a view of Gorleston Harbour, on the East Anglian coast, has been added to the right of the composition.
Other number
Pi. 27
Description
Content (place)
Calais
Dimensions
height (actual size): 151mm
width (actual size): 227mm
width (actual size): 227mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour with scratching out
Production
Person
Date
after 1830
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Percy Moore Turner;; collection of Alan Pilkington; by whom presented/bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
Pilkington, Alan, 1879 - 1973: Bequeathed to Eton by Alan Pilkington, 1973; previously in the collection of Percy Moore Turner
Turner, Percy Moore, c. 1878 - 1950
Turner, Percy Moore, c. 1878 - 1950
