Historical paintings of the Exe Estuary
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View of the Port of Exmouth by John White abbott 1811 Copyright Plymouth City Council (Arts & Heritage)
Salvaging a wreck on Exmouth Beach by George Townsend (c1860). Copyright Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon.
The following documents have been kindly compliled by the Exmouth Historical and Archaelogical Society, following extensive research as part of the LiCCo project. They show how the coastline around the Exe Estuary would have looked in the 19th and early part of the 20th Centuries, as seen through the eyes of both resident and visiting artists. These paintings tell us a great deal about the evolution of the local coastline, particularly when viewed alongside old ordnance survey maps of the time or other historical records such as newspaper accounts of storms or new development. They provide us with a rich and highly visual understanding of how natural and man-made events have shaped our coastline in the past and no doubt will continue to do so in the future. The paintings themselves are supported by text which gives more detail about the lives of the artists responsible.
