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Object Type
Museum number: 1850,0211.385
Title: Object: Torbay from Brixham; Series: Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England
Description: Vol. II, Plate 54. Coastal view, overlooking harbour and the sea, seen from high ground where women spreading linen and men sitting in the foreground, harbour below to the left with curved breakwater, ships and boats in the harbour and the sea in the right background, the sun behind clouds in the right sky; after JMW Turner (Wilton 468); later etched state, after the left sky removed, lines of figures in the foreground strengthen. 1820-1821 Etching
Producer name: After: Joseph Mallord William Turner; Print made by: William Bernard Cooke
School/style
Production date: 1820-1821
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 227 millimetres; Width: 305 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1850,0211.404 for the series.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: coastal scene; harbour/port
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Torbay
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1850,0211.385

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