print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.89
- Title
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Object: Torbay from Brixham
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Series: Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England
- Description
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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); engraver's proof, before sail of ship in the harbour lighten; touched and scraped by Turner, with instruction in image. 1820-1821
Etching and engraving, touched with graphite
- Production date
- 1820-1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 273 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1850,0211.404 for the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Acquisition notes
- 1861,0518.81 to 101 are registered and reported as a volume of 21 touched proofs of prints after Turner by and formerly in the possession of W B Cooke, purchased from Mr Hellyer, architect of Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.89
