Art, literature & history
Beaching a Fishing Boat in a Gale
1770–79
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Pen and black ink
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 27.9 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1992.144
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Hamilton Mortimer. Beaching a Fishing Boat in a Gale. John Hamilton Mortimer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1992. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Beaching a Fishing Boat in a Gale — John Hamilton Mortimer. 1770–79.
Medium: Pen and black ink. Dimensions: sheet: 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 27.9 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1992.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.