[Couple on the Beach, Coney Island, New York]

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

Eugène Boudin’s exceptional ability to observe and record the fleeting effects of nature earned him a place as a precursor of the Impressionists. Though in palette and technique he...

Frederic Church, one of the leading landscape artists of the Hudson River School, produced an outstanding gallery of pictures both of his own country and of the different exotic la...

Photograph, tinted and mounted on card, of a girl wearing a skirt, jumper and hat, posed on the beach with a set of golf clubs, taken on the south coast of England, by Remington's ...

Photograph, tinted and mounted on card, of a boy wearing a wool bobble hat, jacket and trousers, posed on the beach, he is holding a spade, taken on the south coast of England, by ...

Photograph, tinted and mounted on card, of a girl in a pink woollen dress posed on the beach with a spade and a handful of seaweed, taken on the south coast of England, by Remingto...

Little girl's beach shoes, British, about 1885. Pair of little girl's beach shoes, with white canvas uppers and flat rope soles. The throat of each shoe is square cut, and the uppe...