Shipping off Dover

Shipping off Dover

Category
Reference

2657

Samuel Atkins (c.1765-1808)
Shipping off Dover

Signed lower left:
Atkins
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil
10.4 by 30.4 cm., 4 1/8 by 12 in.

Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 30
th January 1991, lot 61

Atkins specialised in marine watercolours and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1787 and 1808. Between 1796 and 1804 he was at sea visiting the East Indies and China. This `long thin' format is typical of his work.