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Title
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Summer on the Sands
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Actual Title
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The Beach at Land's End (alt)
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Artist
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John Brett
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First Exhibited Date
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1879
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Type
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Oil on panel
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Size (HxW, mm)
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180 x 355
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Current Exhibition Location
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National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
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Lent By
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Stephen Winkworth, Esq.
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Catalog Number
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61
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Catalog Page
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10
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Catalog Description
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Now the great winds shoreward blow,/ Now the salt tides seaward flow;/ Now the wild white horses play,/ Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. / (Matthew Arnold).
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Curators Notes
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Second option is 'Bude Sands at Sunset' (1874) at the DIA
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Alt-Text
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A sandy beach with scattered rocks and shallow pools of water in the foreground, gentle waves in the midground, and distant islands under a partly cloudy sky.
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status
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A. R. A.
