This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Landslides in Art Part 3

This is the latest in my occasional series on the depiction of landslides in art. The previous parts of this series are here:
Part 1
Part 2

Today I turn to a classic painting from the 19th Century, painted by Lord Frederic Leighton, entitled "On the Coast, Isle of Wight":


This oil sketch, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, shows a stretch of the Isle of Wight coastline in southern England. The view is from Ventnor looking towards the west towards Saint Lawrence. The coast here is a famous area of landslides known as The Undercliff - the landslide morphology is clearly visible in the painting.

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