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Description
This rock formation is on the eastern side of Prouts Neck. Winslow Homer, who lived in Prouts Neck, made an oil painting of this scene and entitled it "High Cliff, Coast of Maine" in 1894. These stratified rocky cliffs arise from the water at a very steep angle high above the waves.
About This Item
- Title: Rocky Cliff at Prouts Neck, ca. 1940
- Creation Date: circa 1940
- Subject Date: circa 1940
- Location: Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 16.5 cm
- Local Code: 63.31.10
- Collection: Locale:Prouts Neck
- Object Type: Image
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- Coastlines--Maine--Scarborough
- Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
- Artists--United States--Maine
- Rock formations--Maine--Scarborough
- Cliffs--Maine--Scaroborough
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Scarborough Historical Society & MuseumPO Box 156, Scarborough, ME 04070-0156
(207) 885-9997
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