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A Castle

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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A dramatic landscape scene of a castle high on the banks of a lake, cast in shadow against a setting sun. The lakes shore in the foreground with four moored boats, on which there are figures. Seagulls fly around the boats, and a sailing dinghy is visible on the lake in the background.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

A Castle

Date

1857

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 55.3 x W 85.4 cm

Accession number

1902.13

Acquisition method

purchased from the executors of the will of Alfred Muir, 1902

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : blc : artist's name, date, and title : Sam Bough 1857 / (?)Wye Castle

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