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View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight

Anthony Devis · 1772/1781

Anthony Devis: British, 1729 - 1817

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom
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View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight

1772/1781

watercolor with pen and ink over graphite on laid paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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watercolor with pen and ink over graphite on laid paper
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overall: 36.2 x 50.4 cm (14 1/4 x 19 13/16 in.)
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2006.9.1
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Anthony Devis. View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight. Anthony Devis; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Devis,_View_of_the_Needles,_and_White_Cliffs_Taken_from_Allum_Bay,_Isle_of_Wight,_1772-1781,_NGA_134300.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight — Anthony Devis. 1772/1781.

Medium: watercolor with pen and ink over graphite on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 36.2 x 50.4 cm (14 1/4 x 19 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2006.9.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Anthony Devis. View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight. Anthony Devis; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Devis,_View_of_the_Needles,_and_White_Cliffs_Taken_from_Allum_Bay,_Isle_of_Wight,_1772-1781,_NGA_134300.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.