{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1068743"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1068743/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BG2416/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BG2416/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006BG2416","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1068743/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1068743","accessionNumber":"P.4-1982","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[{"title":"Study for The Channel at Gravelines, Evening","type":"popular title"},{"title":"Gravelines, un soir","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Drawing in conte crayon of two anchors propped on their sides.  The paper is Michallet (a brand of Ingres) paper.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Georges Seurat","id":"AUTH318122"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"crayon","id":"x30605"},{"text":"paper","id":"AAT14109"},{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Crayon","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BG2416"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"TRANS5","id":"THES250499"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1890","earliest":"1890-01-01","latest":"1890-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"31.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from departmental notes","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This drawing was no. 174 in the 1891 posthumous inventory of Seurat's studio made by Félix Fénéon.\r\n\r\nProvenance: Emile Seurat, Édouard Vuillard, M. Jacques Roussel\r\n\r\nExhibited: La Revue Blanche, Seurat, Paris, 1900; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les dessins de Seurat, no. 136, Paris, 1926; Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Georges Seurat, no. 129, Paris, 1936.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing in conte crayon of two anchors by Georges Seurat.  A study for a later oil painting entitled 'The Channel at Gravelines, Evening'.  France, 1890.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Dorra, Henri and John Rewald. <i>Seurat</i>. Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d'études et de documents, 1959. Cat. no. 202d (as <i>Ancres, etude pour 'Gravelines, un soir'</i>), p. 263."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hauke, César M. de. <i>Seurat et son oeuvre</i>. Paris: Grund, 1961. Vol. II, cat no. 698, ill, p. 289 (as '<i>Les Ancres</i>')."}],"production":"This was one of nine drawings made by Seurat for an oil painting at Gravelines on the Channel coast in the summer of 1890.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"anchor","id":"AAT219429"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.4-1982"],"accessionNumberNum":"4","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1982,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-21","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}