A Town on an Estuary at Low Tide, Edward Duncan, 1868


A Town on an Estuary at Low Tide, 1868, Watercolor with gum arabic, over graphite, heightened with touches of gouache, Sheet: 17 11/16 x 24 in. (45 x 61 cm), Drawings, Edward Duncan (British, London 1803–1882 London), This light-filled watercolor describes figures and boats in an estuary near a port at low tide. An exposed sandbank occupies the center foreground, with wooden pilings extending down to the water. Duncan was a marine painter, watercolorist and illustrator who also made etchings and lithographs, studied aquatint with Robert William Havell, and established his own engraving business


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