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Stair Hole

© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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Starehole Cove (as it is usually spelt) is a small rock and sand beach in Starehole Bay close to the mouth of the Salcombe and Kingsbridge Estuary in south Devon. It is a well known beauty spot with a rugged and visually striking limestone geology that attracts artistic and photographic interpretation, as here. It is also well known to leisure divers since the remains of the four-masted barque 'Herzogin Cecilie' – one of the celebrated 'grain-race' ships of the 1920s and 1930s – have lain just off the cove since she was abandoned there after being holed on the nearby Hamstone in 1936. She capsized and broke up there three years later. The artist Reginald Lloyd, RI, was born in Hereford in 1926 and lives in Devon. There is work by him in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Britain and other public and private collections.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Stair Hole

Date

1974

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 37 x W 53.6 cm

Accession number

BHC2312

Work type

Painting

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