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Plymouth Harbour (© Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery)
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© Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth Harbour

Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)

Location: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Materials: watercolour

Bequest:

Review number: 5869 (2006)

Provenance:
Collection of Lady Frances Ann Stevens.

Description:
Maritime view of Plymouth harbour, with boats at sail and in dry dock, by the 18th-century caricaturist and watercolourist Thomas Rowlandson. The work is painted in a palette of warm brown and cool grey-blues. In the foreground are lively figures of people and horses.

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