Inscribed in pencil at lower of mat: Sky round sun and beach underneath cleaned out; numbered "4" at lower right hand corner of the mat opening; print blind stamped with Turner's studio monogram stamp below the image, centered between the name of the artist and engraver.
Etched and engraved india paper proof for a steel engraved vignette by J.C. Allen after J.M.W. Turner, entitled "Harborough Sands"; possibly an unpublished vignette for Turner's "Picturesque views in England and Wales", or an illustration for the unpublished "Holloway's Continuation of England and Wales". Cf. Rawlinson.
Print mounted on backing sheet 433 x 304 mm
The fourth of a set of 8 progressive proofs on india paper for Turner's vignette, some of them touched by the artist.
Print shows a flat, sandy shore, with many figures of fishermen and women in foreground and a headland across a bay to left, with a tower or a lighthouse on a point. Fishing-boats are shown ashore on right and the setting sun is reflected across the water.