Caption

La Seine à Honfleur, marée basse (original title on object), print, The bank of the Seine near Honfleur at low tide., printmaker: Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1874, Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, paper, etching, intaglio printmaking technique, height 120 mm x width 178 mm, ebb, low tide, Seine, Honfleur, A sepia-toned etching showing a coastal scene with a shoreline in the foreground strewn with rocks and wooden posts and planks, a small beached boat partly visible at the lower left, and a wooden shed or boathouse set back along the shore. Further along the shore are masts and rigging of multiple tall ships clustered near a dock area, with a few small boats on the shallow water and a lone figure standing in the water near one of them. In the middle distance a low promontory with a few structures and a tall narrow tower rises from the water, while the sea stretches toward the horizon on the right with faint distant boats and a few birds over the water. The sky is lightly sketched with horizontal strokes and sparse cloud outlines.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B17_231

License type

Rights managed

Available size

33.4Mb (9.1Mb) / 14.2in x 9.1in / 4271 x 2737 (300dpi)

Keywords

La Seine à Honfleur marée basse original title object print bank Seine near Honfleur low tide printmaker Carel Nicolaas Storm van s-Gravesande 1874 paper etching intaglio printmaking technique height 120 mm x width 178 mm ebb Seine Honfleur sepia-toned showing coastal scene shoreline foreground strewn rocks wooden posts planks small beached boat partly visible lower left wooden shed boathouse set back shore Further masts rigging multiple tall ships clustered near dock area small boats shallow water lone figure standing water near them middle distance low promontory structures tall narrow tower rises water sea stretches horizon right faint distant boats birds sky lightly sketched horizontal strokes sparse cloud outlines