Joseph Mallord William Turner
View of a Seaport: East Cowes, Isle of Wight

CultureBritish
Titles
  • View of a Seaport: East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Date1828
PlaceIsle of Wight, England
MediumInk, ink wash, and white chalk on blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 5 × 7 1/4 in. (12.7 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2002.455
Non exposé

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Marked, lower right recto sheet: "J M W T"
Two back labels from Thos Agnew & Sons LTD, London.

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