| Description: | Label (handwritten in ink on cardboard): “‘Gloaming on the Tuckerton Salt
marshes.’/Original Study from Nature (done on the spot)./Painted by P. C. Cameron—/Brit.
Govt. Cert Art Master—1883./South Kensington—London./Note—Doubtless, in all
the world, no more beautiful, wonderful and gorgeous sunrises/and sunsets are
to be seen than those that frequently appear on these great/dismal swamps.
The point of view in this study is the wooden bridge over/Big Creek looking
Westward. The Mullica River and Great Bay Gravelling/are a few miles southward.
The square mile of meadow bought from G. A. Mott,/Old Mr Ludlow, Judge Oatis
and others by Dr Goldsmith, a secret agent of the/Kaiser, lies directly to
the right and on it was erected the Tuckerton Wireless Station./Please do not
allow anyone to copy or photograph this original work of art./Note—With reference
to the tall sea-grass, which shows so prominently on the margins of the tidalcreeks
and nowhere else on the meadows, the artist, who is also a diplomaed biologist,
explains/that this is entirely correct—Most of the oystermen are aware of this
phenomenon; but artists, who/merely ‘sketch,’ always get this all wrong in
their pictures. Botanists are as mistaken/as others as to this fact. The present
artist has studied this ‘freak of nature’ for over 20 years and has at last/discovered
the cause of it. He hopes to be able to explain and illustrate all this in
his book.”
Cameron explained that the primary object of Gloaming on the Tuckerton
Salt Marshes was to capture one of the “beautiful, wonderful and gorgeous
sunrises and sunsets . . . that frequently appear on these great dismal swamps.” He
also intended this watercolor to serve as a scientific illustration for a
book devoted a local phenomenon concerning the sea-grass he had studied for
twenty years. Apparently he never wrote the book.
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