The Coming Storm: A Fishing Boat Making for Home off Whitby
1840
Artist, British, 1787 - 1855

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over traces of graphite with scratching out
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 63.7 × 91.9 cm (25 1/16 × 36 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.151.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly J. P. Theobald, Esq. [died c. 1894], Kingston-on-Thames; (possibly his sale, Christie's, London, 28 May 1894, no. 55, as "Off Whitby, Storm Coming On"); (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London). Humphrey Roberts, Esq., Queens Gate, London; George J. Gould, New Jersey, 1904; probably by inheritance through Edith Gould Martin to Guy Martin, Jr., Washington, D.C.; (sale, Weschler's, Rockville, 20 February 2015, no. 271). (sale, Weschler's, 13 December, 2019, no. 296, bought in); (James MacKinnon, London); gift to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1901
The Water Colour Art of the 19th Century, The Fine Art Society, London, 1901, no. 80.
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Inscriptions
lower left in watercolor: Copley Fielding / 1840