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Sunken cliff near Folkestone Harbour

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Date

1785

Artist

John Lyon (1734-1817)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Landscape showing a cliff near Folkestone Church which has subsided, creating a fissure and raising up ground near to the beach. Part of the town and harbour of Folkestone is visible in the distance, with sailing vessels at sea and at anchor. Plate 4 from the paper “An account of a subsidence of the ground near Folkestone, on the coast of Kent, In a letter from the Rev. John Lyon, M.A. to Edward King...with remarks” by Edward King and John Lyon, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.76 (1786), pp.220-228.