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Samuel Atkins

The Fleet Off the Coast, Beachy Head

c. 1790–1805
watercolor with graphite underdrawing

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Beachy Head, the site depicted in this drawing, worked its way into popular culture and literature around the time that Samuel Atkins made the work, including a song of the Royal Navy and a poem by Charlotte Turner Smith, a contemporary of the artist.

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