Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which t

A watercolor view across rocky foreground boulders toward a bay framed by grassy cliffs that recede into hazy distance. A small figure in red stands on the shoreline, and a few birds wheel in the pale sky. Soft washes and touches of bodycolor give the scene a calm, luminous quality.

Look closer: A tiny figure in red stands near the water's edge on the rocks below the cliffs.

Artist

Robert Charles Dudley

Date

1865–66

Medium

Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3622 × 2510 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892