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- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7378
- Title
- Object: The Royal Yacht Squadron, (Cowes)
- Description
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Outline key to a picture by Henry Barraud; interior of a large room with a low ceiling and almost entirely open on the three sides shown, with balconies outside allowing views of the sea; with 61 members of the yacht club gathered, some sitting in wicker rocking chairs, with a couple of small tables; they include the Earl of Wilton and John Weld, sitting in the right foreground, with Lady Drogheda standing behind them; a man on the terrace in the background to left is looking out to sea through a telescope, and a steam sailing ship is shown on the water in the centre background. 1870
Lithograph and letterpress
- Production date
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres (image)
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Height: 310 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 425 millimetres (image)
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Width: 495 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Relates to a picture by Ansdell, according to the Lennox-Boyd database.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2010,7081.7378