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This may show a view of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, though some uncertainty remains given that the seventeenth-century tower there is polygonal and further inland.

Laing Art Gallery

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Title

Coastal Shipping off Cliffs with a Seamark Tower

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61 x W 91.4 cm (E)

Accession number

TWCMS : G1312

Acquisition method

gift from Sarah Greenfield, 1941, on loan to the Matfen Hall Hotel, Hexham, Northumberland

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

J.W. Swift; J.W. Swift Sea Piece, with Boats.; Greenfield Carliol Sq. N.C. 22.7.41.

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Can we confirm this as a view of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, with the 18th Century lighthouse?

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