A Town on an Estuary at Low Tide

Edward Duncan

1868 · Watercolor with gum arabic, over graphite, heightened with touches of gouache (bodycolor) · Drawings and Prints

This light-filled watercolor describes figures and boats in an estuary near a port at low tide. An exposed sandbank occupies the center foreground, with wooden pilings extending down to the water. Duncan was a marine painter, watercolorist and illustrator who also made etchings and lithographs, studied aquatint with Robert William Havell, and established his own engraving business.

Artist

Edward Duncan

Date

1868

Medium

Watercolor with gum arabic, over graphite, heightened with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013