View of Basse Terre on the Island of Guadeloupe

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View of Basse Terre on the Island of Guadeloupe
View of Basse Terre on the Island of Guadeloupe
Artist/Maker (British, 1740 - 1821)
Date1789
MediumGraphite and watercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/16 × 14 3/4 in. (25.9 × 37.5 cm) Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 7/8 in. (26.5 × 37.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.16a
Not on view
DescriptionShips in inlet waters with harbor and mountains in the distance

Additional Details

Alternate Titles View of Basse Terre on the Island of Guadeloupe. taken on the Spot & Drawn by N: Pocock 1789
Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Beinecke Collection," June 21-Sept. 16, 2007 (no catalog).
Published References Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 332, catalogue no. P9a.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed "(BC 3a)" at lower right in pencil.
Capture of Basse Terre Guadaloupe, with a View of the attack made upon it by Commodor Moore & Gov Douglas
Nicholas Pocock
Date: 1789
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.15
Photograph by John Bentham.
Nicholas Pocock
Date: 1805
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: INV.282
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A. E. R.
Date: 1842
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.17
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
William Hay
Date: 1790s
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.8
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Date: c. 1835-1845
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.25
Untitled [artist's father-in-law's house, St. Christopher]
Thomas Shotter Boys
Date: likely 1834
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
John Marin
Date: c. 1917 (dated 1916)
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 1962.4
Photograph by John Bentham.
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1914-19
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 1994.200
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Lt. John Herbert Caddy
Date: published February 1, 1837
Medium: Hand-colored aquatint on paper
Object number: 1971.39.5
Photograph by John Bentham.
Lt. John Herbert Caddy
Date: 1845
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.3
Untitled [harbor, three ships]
William Tobin
Date: 1798
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.21
Untitled [St. Martin, W.I.]
Date: 1850?
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1973.3