Nicholas Pocock
1740?-1821
View of Tórshavn Harbor, Faeroe Islands
1791
6 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (165 x 368 mm)
Pen and black ink with watercolor, over graphite, on wove paper.
1974.60
Gift of Capt. and Mrs. Paul Hammond.
Notes
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, dated and inscribed in pen and brown ink by the artist on his decorated mat (9 5/8 x 17 7/16 inches [243 x 442 mm]): below right corner of drawing, "N. Pocock. 1791"; along lower margin, "Appearance of the Land on each Side the harbour of Thorshaven as seen after having pass'd the S. End of Nolroe continued from No. 7"; at lower left corner, No. 7B".
Inscribed in graphite at upper center of drawing, "Thorshaven. S end of Nolroe"; at lower left, "No. 18".
Inscribed in graphite at upper center of drawing, "Thorshaven. S end of Nolroe"; at lower left, "No. 18".
Associated names
Hammond, Paul, former owner.
Hammond, Paul, Mrs., former owner.
Hammond, Paul, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 177.
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Century Drawings
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