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Peter Caledon Cameron
(dates unknown)
Sunset over the Salt Meadows
Watercolor on paper, 22 × 32 1/2 inches
Signed and inscribed at lower right: “Tuckerton Salt Meadows/N.J. USA/PCCameron
[initials conjoined]”
Label (handwritten in ink on cardboard): “‘Sunset over the Salt-meadows.’/Original
study direct from nature/painted by/P. C. Cameron. Philadelphia./Art Master’s
Cert 1883./Brit Govt. S. K. London./Note. This picture is of historical interest
as the little meadow-island in the middle, known/as Hickory Island, is the
spot whereon now stands the tallest building in America,/world-famous as the
Tuckerton Wireless Station radio–tower, 860 feet high./When this study was
commenced in 1901, the artist lodged at Mott’s oyster-shanty/on Willet’s Thorofare
and worked on a platform on the roof of a nearby hut used as a/marine-biological
laboratory by the late state-biologist, Prof Julius Nelson of Rutgers Coll./Every
year since—say 17 years—the artist took this study with him to the New Jersey/Coast
and watched for similar sunset effects in order to make this as perfect as
possible./Please do not allow anyone to copy or to photograph this original
work of art.”
Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery
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