FOLKESTONE HARBOUR Indistinctly signed

Publication Date: 1881

About this Item

Oil painting on artists board, 14 x 9 inches, depicting the town and port of Folkestone. FOLKESTONE: Depicted from the east of the town, and viewed across the harbour, with the Leas and St. Eanswythe's church in the background. The Royal Pavilion hotel is seen behind a forest of ships' masts, and early buildings are shown along the Stade and in the lower town beyond. In the middle ground is the cliff to the east of the Mole, as yet without the arched promenade at its foot, topped by St. Peter's Church. In the foreground are the grassy cliff tops adjacent to the current Wear Bay Road. The painting is in very good condition apart from the margins, where there are signs of discolouration due to the framing. There is some slight craquelure in the sky of the painting. The painting of Folkestone, has a signature. It is signed in the lower right-hand corner, and dated 1881, though the initial and first letters have been partly obliterated during framing. The fragment appears to read '??denham'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FOLKESTONE HARBOUR Indistinctly signed
• Publication Date: 1881