Dead Calm - Sunset at the Bight of Exmouth
- Description
- Danby was interested in the special effects of nature and the poetic moods of landscape. The central tower was a pumping station on Brunel’s atmospheric railway -a short lived project which propelled trains by atmospheric pressure rather than steam power.
- Accession Loan No.
- 306/1976
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- Dead Calm - Sunset at the Bight of Exmouth
- Simple Name
- painting
- Full Name
- Dead Calm - Sunset at the Bight of Exmouth
- Dimensions
- stretcher H 774 mm; stretcher length 1070 mm; frame H 922 mm; frame length 1224 mm
- Production Person Surname
- Danby
- Production Person Initials
- Francis
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Date
- 1855
- Production Year Low
- 1855
- Production Year High
- 1855
- Production Town
- Exmouth
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
- Topography Village
- Exmouth
- Topography Building Keyword
- railway; ship; boat
- Inscription / Transcription
- F Danby 1855; F Danby ARA No 2
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