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The Port of Newton, Glamorgan
DEVIS, Anthony (1729 - 1816)
[image: The Port of Newton, Glamorgan]
Date: 1768
Media: oil on board
Size: 34.9 x 58.4 cm
Acquired: 1936; Purchase
Accession Number: NMW A 425
Two men are using a wooden box trap to catch rabbits in the sand dunes near the once flourishing port of Newton, Glamorganshire. Born at Preston, the step-brother of the portraitist Arthur Devis, the artist worked as a topographical painter, primarily in watercolour.
This work is currently on display:
Gallery 8
National Museum Cardiff, level 4
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