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Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight

image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0

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Date

1847

Artist

William Dyce (1806-1864)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Description

Dyce is best known for meticulously-rendered religious subjects that earned him the nickname "the British Nazarene." Completely different in character, this watercolor was made for his own pleasure in the summer of 1847, during a stay on the Isle of Wight to paint "Neptune Resigning his Empire of the Seas to Britainnia" for the royal residence of Osborne House. Turning his attention from allegory to the physical realities of the English coast, Dyce represents men collecting wood from a wrecked boat, and fishermen carrying bundles across Sandown Bay, with the distinctive chalk face of Culver Cliff standing out in the distance.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location

Culver Down, Isle of Wight, England

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Beaches
Cliffs
Coasts
Seascapes

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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