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Wreck off Scarborough

  • Original object type: Image
  • Title: Wreck off Scarborough
  • Corporate Creators: Henry B. Carter
  • Description:

    Signed across lower left corner in brown paint, HB CARTER; an inscribed label on the reverse reads: H.B.Carter of Scarborough/(deceased)/ Storm at Sea with Shipwreck / Moonlight; A fine and grandly impressive drawing / Carter, without being an imitator / or copyist of J.M.W. Turner produced / works from his own feeling and / individuality that have much / of the Turnerian character, and / many examples of his best time possess / qualities which, in their way. have never / been surpassed. A second inscribed label, in a different hand, reads: "Wreck off Scarborough" / by H.B.Carter

  • Date range: 1840s?
  • Keywords: Marine, Yorkshire
  • Subjects: University Subjects > Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2013 11:07
  • Last Modified: 09 Jul 2013 11:07