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Watercolour - Lancaster Sands

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1953P406
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1816 - 1825

Maker Information

Artist:J M W Turner - View biography for J M W Turner

Notes

One of the first of Turner's autobiographical travelling pictures, showing the Lancaster coach struggling across the sands in a rainstorm being overtaken by the incoming tide.

Presented by J Leslie Wright1953, received on his death, 1954.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
School/Style:English Landscape
Medium:Watercolour.
Material(s):Watercolour

Dimensions

Height:280 mm
Width:394 mm