Arthur Suker Tol-Pedn-Penwith near Land's End, Cornwall

An original late 19th-century watercolour painting, Arthur Suker, Tol-Pedn-Penwith near Land's End, Cornwall.

An impressive large watercolour by Arthur Suker (1857–1940) showing the rocky headland at Gwennap Head on the south coast of Cornwall. It was formerly known by its original Cornish name, 'Tol Pedn Penwith', meaning 'the holed headland in Penwith'. The rocks are of geological interest for their porphyritic granite, pinite and red feldspar, and are famous for having a huge chasm—or vertical blowhole—in the cliff, created by the collapse of a cave. Tol Pedn used to be known as Land's End and in the early 19th century, to avoid confusion with today's Land's End (approximately four miles to the north), it was called St Levan's Land's End.

The painting has an intensity of colour, with emerald green waters and a range of earth colours to the rocks, as well as textural brushstrokes that convey the rugged, majestic physicality of the landscape.

The painting is accompanied by an historic dealer's label of Thomas Walker, Victoria Parade, Newquay, Cornwall. The label erroneously dates the painting to 1866, when Suker would have only been nine years old.