drawing

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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1855,0214.55
Description: Star Cross, Devonshire; view of village with shore in foreground where figures walk and two rowing boats lie aground, incline to left with trees. 1797 Watercolour
Producer name: Drawn by: Thomas Girtin
School/style: British
Production date: 1797 (?)
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 156 millimetres; Width: 242 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Joseph Brennan (email Sept 2020) suggests that the location is Dawlish rather than Starcross: 'I think this is Dawlish. Starcross is almost flat. At Dawlish there was a turnpike road that came down a steep hill like this, before the railway was built in 1845. Peter Kay, "Exeter - Newton Abbot, a Railway History', p. 4.'
Bibliographic references: Girtin & Loshak 1954 / The Art of Thomas Girtin (200); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (8)
Location: Not on display
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Starcross
Acquisition name: Donated by: Chambers Hall (L.551)
Acquisition date: 1855
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1855,0214.55

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