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| Willem van de Velde the Younger Calm - Fishing Boats under Sail ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jacobus Storck Castle on a River in Holland ca. 1660-88 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg The Wreckers before 1812 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Stanhope Alexander Forbes The Lighthouse (Newlyn, Cornwall) before 1892 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| John Crome The Steam Packet ca. 1813-17 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Eugène Boudin Beach at Tourgéville-les-Sablons 1893 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Henry Scott Tuke The Green Waterways 1926 oil on canvas Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Lancashire |
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| John Houston Bathers ca. 1965-66 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Albert Joseph Moore Shells 1874 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Yves Tanguy Échelles 1935 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
Devoir Molluscule
Make small and hard,
Make round, distinct and hard
These verities that hammer and intrude
Upon the careless fringes of the soul.
O leave not these sharp grains
Without their shell of luster and allure.
– F.R. Scott (1966)
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| Edgar Degas Beach Scene ca. 1869-70 oil on paper, mounted on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| William Stott A Summer's Day ca. 1880-90 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Herbert James Draper Ulysses and the Sirens 1910 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Augustus Egg Outward Bound before 1863 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Philippe Meusnier the Elder A Quay 1719 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |