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The image shows a rocky coastal scene with a stone structure featuring a winch or pulley system. A blanket with intricate patterns is draped over the stone. Dense vegetation is on the left, and the beach stretches out to the distant shore. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of black, gray, and sepia.
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The image shows a rocky coastal scene with a stone structure featuring a winch or pulley system. A blanket with intricate patterns is draped over the stone. Dense vegetation is on the left, and the beach stretches out to the distant shore. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of black, gray, and sepia.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A Well by the Seaside, Langland Bay, Swansea, Wales

Charles Henry Waring

Date
c. 1854
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 16.2 × 20.1 cm (6 3/8 × 7 15/16 in.) mount: 25.4 × 36.4 cm (10 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2018.23.30
Credit line
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • salted paper print
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Well
  • Welsh
  • landscape
Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 12 May 1994, lot 47); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York; gift to NGA, 2018.

Inscription

by artist, bottom left in black ink: C.H.W.; bottom center in graphite: a well by the Seaside, Langland Bay, W Swansea; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: 5L; bottom right: Waring / J1037

NGA object ID 212334. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.