Low Tide, the Evening Star, and Rye's Long Pier Deserted
Artist
Sir Frank Short
(English, 1857 - 1945)
Date1888
MediumEtching
DimensionsPlate: 7 5/16 × 10 5/16 inches (18.57 × 26.19 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (20.96 × 28.42 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (20.96 × 28.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number58-70/75
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelSir Frank Short was president of the Royal Society of Etchers in London. This view of a coastal harbor town is inspired by Whistler’s Thames views, like Black Lion Wharf. The quayside retreating in steep perspective is a motif found in some 17th-century Dutch topographical drawings. As in David Young Cameron’s Kincardine, a feeling of great space is conveyed by leaving much of the surface bare of detail.
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