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These works are probably the result of one of Edward Duncan's sketching tours of Southern England.
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A collection of seventeen unframed drawings, the majority of the South Downs and their environs, including: Cliffs near Hastings; The Downs; Hastings; Hastings boat; Barges; Romney Marsh; At St. Leonards; Lewis Fair; On Hastings beach; Wear in Swansea Bay and others; and an album of fifteen drawings titled Sketches at Hastings, including two sketches of Bexhill; Near Dawlish; Sketches of Arundel; St. Leonards; The South Downs and others by the same hand
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Edward Duncan, R.W.S. (1803-1882)
A collection of seventeen unframed drawings, the majority of the South Downs and their environs, including: Cliffs near Hastings; The Downs; Hastings; Hastings boat; Barges; Romney Marsh; At St. Leonards; Lewis Fair; On Hastings beach; Wear in Swansea Bay and others; and an album of fifteen drawings titled Sketches at Hastings, including two sketches of Bexhill; Near Dawlish; Sketches of Arundel; St. Leonards; The South Downs and others by the same hand
some signed with initials 'ED' and others signed 'E. Duncan', the majority inscribed with titles and variously dated from 1840 to 1852, all bearing studio stamp
pencil, one with wash and heightened with white, unframed
9 7/8 x 13½ in. (25.2 x 34.3 cm.); and smaller; 17 x 13¾ in. (43.2 x 35 cm.), the album (18)
A collection of seventeen unframed drawings, the majority of the South Downs and their environs, including: Cliffs near Hastings; The Downs; Hastings; Hastings boat; Barges; Romney Marsh; At St. Leonards; Lewis Fair; On Hastings beach; Wear in Swansea Bay and others; and an album of fifteen drawings titled Sketches at Hastings, including two sketches of Bexhill; Near Dawlish; Sketches of Arundel; St. Leonards; The South Downs and others by the same hand
some signed with initials 'ED' and others signed 'E. Duncan', the majority inscribed with titles and variously dated from 1840 to 1852, all bearing studio stamp
pencil, one with wash and heightened with white, unframed
9 7/8 x 13½ in. (25.2 x 34.3 cm.); and smaller; 17 x 13¾ in. (43.2 x 35 cm.), the album (18)
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