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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.2585
Title: Object: A Hard Gale
Description: Coastal scene; men in the foreground pulling on a rope to draw a boat on shore, another man kneelingo n the quay with a fishing rod and fish on the left, and two figures near him, one pointing towards the light-house on a cliff-top on the right; with a ship a little way out to sea, and a ruined classical temple, round and with a domed roof, by the edge of the water; after Vernet; after publication line erased. 1773 Mezzotint with some etching
Producer name: Print made by: Robert Laurie; After: Robert Dodd
School/style: British; French
Production date: 1773
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 470 millimetres; Width: 566 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For an impression of the earlier state, see 2010,7081.2584
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed); Arlaud 1976 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées d'après Joseph Vernet (220)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.2585
Conservation: Treatment: 22 Feb 2012

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