Rhyl Sands
Watercolour
ca. 1850 (made)
ca. 1850 (made)
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Watercolour depicting Rhyl Sands in Wales with numerous figures and wagons dotted about on the beach and a figure sitting on a horse in the shallower water. One is given the impression that it is quite windy as the garments worn by the figures are all being blown back by gusts coming off the sea. Signed by the artist.
Object details
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| Title | Rhyl Sands (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour depicting Rhyl Sands in Wales by David Cox Senior (1783-1859). Great Britain, ca. 1850-1855. |
| Physical description | Watercolour depicting Rhyl Sands in Wales with numerous figures and wagons dotted about on the beach and a figure sitting on a horse in the shallower water. One is given the impression that it is quite windy as the garments worn by the figures are all being blown back by gusts coming off the sea. Signed by the artist. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | David Cox (Signed lower left) |
| Gallery label | David Cox 1783-1859
Rhyl Sands
About 1854; signed
Cox was one of the most popular watercolourist of his day. He frequently visited north Wales, where Rhyl was a popular resort on account of its wide beach and dry, bracing air. The critic John Ruskin said of Cox 'the accidental in his mode answers gracefully to the accidental part of nature herself'.
Watercolour on paper
Purchased 1930
Museum no. P.30-1930 |
| Object history | Exhibited at the David Cox Exhibition at Birmingham in 1890, and at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Coombs, Katherine British watercolours : 1750-1950 . London: V&A Publications, 2012
p.49, pl.38 |
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| Accession number | P.30-1930 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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