The West Wind, Lynmouth

1866

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 in. × 18 1/4 in. (30.5 × 46.4 cm)
Collection no.: 2015.546
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir Edward John Poynter. The West Wind, Lynmouth. Sir Edward John Poynter; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2015. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The West Wind, Lynmouth — Sir Edward John Poynter. 1866.

Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor). Dimensions: Sheet: 12 in. × 18 1/4 in. (30.5 × 46.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2015.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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