watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of
bodycolour
26 by 44.8cm, 10 1/4 by 17 1/2 inches
It has been suggested that this is a view looking north from
Ditchling Beacon near Lewes on the Sussex Downs.
Moore
was born in York, the ninth son of the portrait painter William Moore, and made
his name as a marine artist. This is closer in subject to his earlier work of
the 1850s which are in a Pre-Raphaelite style