The Fishery

Support (PTG): 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Accession number: B1981.25.723a
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Support (PTG): 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Bibliography: Paul Mellon's Legacy, a passion for British art. [large print labels], Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 +P381 2007, Mellon Shelf (YCBA)|Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, p. 430, ND466 +W38 Oversize (YCBA)|Christie's Sale Catalogue: 12 July 1990, Christie's, 1990, Lot 64, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)|Alex Kidson, Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 298, fig. 123, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)|Sarah ( Sarah Helen ) Monks, Fishy Business, Richard Wright's The Fisher (1764), Marine Painting, and the Limits of Refinement in Eighteenth-Century London, Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 41, Spring 2008, pp. 405 -421, fig. 1, 3, 4, NX 452 E54 (YCBA) Also available online: see Orbis|Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings : 23 November 1966, Sotheby's, London, November 23, 1966, p. 13, lot 42, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)|Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 224-226, cat. 87, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Collection: Paintings and Sculpture