Numbered "2" at lower right hand corner of the mat opening; etching 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 an engraved vignette by J.C. Allen after J.M.W. Turner entitled "Harborough Sands"; according to Rawlinson, the engraving is one an unpublished group of 5 plates and 3 vignettes after drawings by Turner formerly in the possession of Thomas Holloway (1800-1883) and erroneously identified in previous sources under the title "Holloway's Continuation of 'England and Wales'". Cf. Rawlinson, page 169-173.
Print mounted on backing sheet 444 x 308 mm
The second 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.