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Watercolor of beached sailing boats and figures on a sandy shore at low tide, with a cliff under a hazy sky.

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Calais Sands, François Louis Thomas Francia (1831), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A watercolor of a sandy shore at low tide, where two large sailing boats rest on their sides and figures work among anchors, baskets and timber. A rocky headland rises on the right beneath a warm, hazy sky, with a distant ship and more figures along the waterline.

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