Harborough Sands / drawn by J.M.W. Turner ; etched by J.C. Allen.
Print mounted on backing sheet 445 x 304 mm
Touched by the artist with white chalk.
The third of a set of 8 progressive proofs on india paper for Turner's vignette, some of them touched by the artist.
Formerly in the collection of Sir Frank Short; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Print shows a flat, sandy shore, with many figures of fishermen and women in foreground and a headland across a bay to left, with a tower or a lighthouse on a point. Fishing-boats are shown ashore on right and the setting sun is reflected across the water.
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857-1945, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 16-17 (misidentified as "Lowestoffe Lighthouse").<br>Rawlinson, W.G. The engraved work of J.M.W. Turner. London : Macmillan, 1908-1913, p. 171, no. 306 (finished state).