# Rocky Reef on the Sea Shore

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FRIEDRICH, Caspar David](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 22 x 31 cm

## Commentary

Rocky Reef on the Sea Shore c. 1824 Oil on canvas, 22 x 31 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe This painting is closely related to The Sea of Ice \(Kunsthalle, Hamburg\) and it was probably executed only shortly afterwards. It probably depicts the western tip of the Isle of Wight off Bournemouth, a view which Friedrich may have known from engravings. The rocky needles in the sea recall the ice formations in the Hamburg painting.

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- [Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, Reading](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/adolf-gottlieb-friedrich-reading-r46c77e50bf101c>)
- [Boats in the Harbour at Evening](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/boats-in-the-harbour-at-evening-r970bf240d39207>)
- [Bohemian Landscape with Mount Milleschauer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/bohemian-landscape-with-mount-milleschauer-r504efc7e53afa6>)
- [Chalk Cliffs at Rügen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/chalk-cliffs-at-rgen-r0925f8495f6526>)
- [Chalk Cliffs on Rügen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/chalk-cliffs-on-rgen-r8ca9933591e4cf>)
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- [Cross in the Mountains \(Tetschen Altar\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/cross-in-the-mountains-tetschen-altar-r8d1ca6b57a851e>)
- [Cross in the Mountains \(Tetschen Altar\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/cross-in-the-mountains-tetschen-altar-r90b686871a5e26>)
- [Dolmen in the Snow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/dolmen-in-the-snow-r5a08265a27bd23>)
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- [Easter Morning](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/easter-morning-r741b6859899b3c>)
- [Evening Landscape with Two Men](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/friedrich-caspar-david-r902592c990c403/evening-landscape-with-two-men-r00894f8486338c>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)