Entrance to the Zuyder Zee

1869

Not on view

After a picture also titled "Oude Scheld - Texel Island, looking towards Nieuwe Diep and the Zuider Zee," a seascape with boats in rough water and a wooden tower and figures working. Exhibited in 1844, the painting was presented by Robert Vernon to the nation in 1847. Probably from "Gems of English Art of this Century: Twenty-Four Pictures from National Collections," printed in colors by Leighton Brothers, with Illustrative texts by Francis Turner Palgrave, George Routledge & Sons, London and New York, 1869.

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Title: Entrance to the Zuyder Zee
Artist: After Clarkson Stanfield (British, Sunderland 1793–1867 London)
Printer: Leighton Brothers (British, active 1849–85)
Date: 1869
Medium: Color process
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.5 × 24 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942
Object Number: 42.151.50
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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