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Whitby Harbour

Image credit: Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

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A stormy marine scene. Most of the picture is taken up by rain and black clouds, especially at the top left side. On the left of the picture are the harbour wall and lighthouse, with a rough sea lashing the wall. A figure looks over the wall at a ship in the centre of the picture. There is a small two-sailed boat with two figures, its prow lifted up by the waves and leaning to the right. On the right of the picture, on the horizon, is a large full-rigged sailing ship; in the foreground is a solid copper weight, like an anchorage point, to which the ships could moor.

There is another version of this work, 'Port on a Stormy Day', at the Yale Center for British Art. The painting was incorrectly listed as 'Swansea Harbour' in the Nottingham Castle collection catalogues from 1913–1926.

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Nottingham

Title

Whitby Harbour

Date

1836

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 101.6 x W 132.1 cm

Accession number

NCM 1904-19

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mr Richard Godson Millns, 1904

Work type

Painting

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