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Human-Made Object
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painting
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marine art
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Painting
The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698
Winstanley's Lighthouse
[2016, Spreading Canvas, exhibition catalogue]
Signed in white paint (on rock), lower center: "P. Monamy"
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1981.25.450
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23761530
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
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Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
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Peter Monami
Peter Monamie
Peter Monimi
Peter Mononry
Peter Monony
Peter Mundmy
Peter Monamy
Monamy Peter, 1681–1749
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
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1749
male
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marine painter
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1698
1708
22
18th century
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oil paint
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canvas
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painting (technique)
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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https://britishart.yale.edu/node/464
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/464
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exhibition
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
YCBA
BAC
1977
0
2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04
2016-09-09
2016-12-04
Yale Center for British Art
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
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This was the first major exhibition to survey the tradition of marine painting that was inextricably linked to Britain’s rise to prominence as a maritime and imperial power, and to position the genre at the heart of the burgeoning British art world of the eighteenth century. — —
The demand for marine paintings—and the prints made after them—in the eighteenth century, from ship launches to shipwrecks, naval battles to serene coastal views, reflected Britain’s absolute dependence on the sea. In an age when Britain claimed to rule the waves, marine paintings found a new importance and helped the island nation tell its stories of triumph and disaster. — —
Arranged in thematic sections within a broadly chronological framework, Spreading Canvas spanned the period between the arrival in Greenwich of the Dutch marine painters Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger, in the early 1670s, and J. M. W. Turner’s first responses to the Battle of Trafalgar, displayed at his gallery in 1806. Featuring works by artists such as Peter Monamy, Samuel Scott, Dominic Serres, and Nicholas Pocock, the exhibition contended that the marine painters who created images of the sea and shipping in eighteenth-century Britain were more than mere stylistic inheritors of a Dutch seventeenth-century tradition; rather, they forged a uniquely British approach to their subject. — —
Drawn primarily from the collections of the Center, Spreading Canvas was augmented by spectacular loans from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, and other private and institutional collections. The exhibition included ship models, prints, paintings, sketchbooks, and letters, in order to reconstruct the full array of representational modes that were deployed throughout the century to represent the maritime exploits of the nation. Such variety also reflects the fact that marine paintings, and the artists who produced them, were fully embedded in the thriving and cosmopolitan artistic sphere of the period. — —
By including examples of the sketches, plans, and textual accounts that underlay the finished works, Spreading Canvas also revealed the processes through which marine painters constructed depictions of highly complex events that had taken place at great physical and temporal distances. But, far from functioning merely as skillful reportage, marine painting responded to and helped to shape Britain’s role on the global stage. Indeed, this exhibition demonstrated that marine painting was, from the age of tapestries to the advent of the modern panorama, both ubiquitous and fundamentally relevant to eighteenth-century British art and culture. — —
Credits — —
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting was organized by the Yale Center for British Art in association with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, and curated by Eleanor Hughes, Deputy Director for Art & Program at the Walters Art Museum. The organizing curator at the Center was Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections and Head of Collections Information and Access. — —
The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated book, edited by Eleanor Hughes, with essays by Hughes, Richard Johns, Geoff Quilley, Christine Riding, and Catherine Roach, and contributions by Sophie Lynford, John McAleer, and Pieter van der Merwe. The volume was published by the Center in association with Yale University Press.
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publication event
Malcolm Cormack, ^Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 160-161, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
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Cormack Malcolm
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
1985
1985
1985
New Haven, CT
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300054686
publication event
Charles Harrison-Wallace, ^Peter Monamy, 1682-1749, marine artist : Pallant House Gallery, Chichester^, Pallant House Gallery, 1983, no. 8, fig. 4, NJ18 M756 H37 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Charles Harrison-Wallace
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Harrison-Wallace Charles
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Author
Pallant House Gallery
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Pallant House Gallery
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Publisher
1983
1983
1983
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300054686
publication event
Eleanor Hughes, ^Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 158, cat. 19, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Eleanor Hughes
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Hughes Eleanor
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editor
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2016
2016
2016
New Haven
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
1977
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gift
For centuries the Eddystone Rocks, off the coast of Cornwall, had caused the wreck of ships approaching Plymouth, and in 1692 the Admiralty issued a call for designs for a lighthouse to be built there. The artist, inventor, and engineer Henry Winstanley was awarded the project, and construction began in 1696. While on the reef on June 25, 1697, he was taken prisoner by a French privateer; only after Louis XIV ordered his release was construction completed, in November 1698. The lighthouse was successfully in use until 1703, when that year’s “Great Storm” destroyed it, perhaps fulfilling Winstanley’s desire to be inside his lighthouse during “the greatest storm that ever blew under the face of the heavens,” but killing him in the process. Peter Monamy's painting is a composite, culled from various printed materials available to the artist long after the original structure was destroyed. The absolute calm belies the history of and reasons for the lighthouse’s construction.
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Gallery label
2016
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full-rigged ships
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opening (architectural element)
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shore (landform)
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lighthouse
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flags
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yachts
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Union Jack
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sea
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boats
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ships
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longboats
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marine art
Winstanley's lighthouse
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Eddystone Lighthouse
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Eddystone Lighthouse
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 160-161, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
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related to
Charles Harrison-Wallace, Peter Monamy, 1682-1749, marine artist : Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, 1983, no. 8, fig. 4, NJ18 M756 H37 (YCBA)
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related to
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 158, cat. 19, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
12893333
ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
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related to
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500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Item
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:934
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:934
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/934
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/934
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art