Cleveland Museum of Art
The Fleet Off the Coast, Beachy Head
Samuel Atkins (British, 1760–1810) · c. 1790–1805
Beachy Head, the site depicted in this drawing, worked its way into popular culture and literature around the time that Samuel Atkins made the work, including a song of the Royal Navy and a poem by Charlotte Turner Smith, a contemporary of the artist.
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