Charon's Boat

between 1756 and 1815

James Gillray English, 1756-1815

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About the Artwork

Title Charon's Boat

Artwork Date between 1756 and 1815

Artist James Gillray

Life Dates 1756-1815

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil

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Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 66.14

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right corner: [indecipherable, crossed out] | Shys [crossed out] | The Stygian Lake Lake Inscribed, in pencil, recto, lower right edge: [indecipherable, erased] Charon you should not come | [illegible] you [illegible] for us Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper right corner: Charon's Boat passing the Stygian Lake | or the last [words crossed out] | Broad Bottomites on thier last voyage Inscribed, in pencil above insciption:Taking the dead over Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, at center, on sail: Catholic Bill Inscribed, in blue pencil, verso, upper left: [indecipherable]

Provenance

1815-1818, Hannah Humphrey (London, England)

1818-ca. 1835, George Humphrey (London, England)

July 13-16 1835, Mrs. George Humphrey, sold, E. Foster and son, lot 402 (London, England)

by 1835, P & D Colnaghi (London, England)

ca. 1931-1961, Minto Wilson (London, England)

1961-1964, Mrs. H. Blake Tyler (London, England)

July 6-7, 1964, sold Sotheby and Co., lot 45 (London, England)

J. S. Mass (London, England)

1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

James Gillray, Charon's Boat, between 1756 and 1815, brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 66.14.