Live Auction 6289The Fuller Collection of Victorian Landscape Watercolours
Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Lot 30

Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)

Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, washing day

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GBP 5,287

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Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, washing day
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
11.1/8 x 15.3/8 in. (28.2 x 39.1 cm.)

Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 13 July 1989, lot 199.
with Chris Beetles, London.

Specialist note

This watercolour also shows the bay and the 'Seaur' (pronounced Scar) and depicts more of the headland at whose tip is Ravenscar (at that time called 'Peak'). Some of the houses in the lower part of the split-level village can also be seen.