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Object Type
print
Museum number
1860,0211.599
Title
Object:
A Shipwreck
Series:
Stafford Gallery
Description
Plate 2: shipwreck, after Joseph Vernet, with shipwrecked people on the shore in the foreground, and in the background, the ship tilting abruptly on the left, and a tower on the top of a large rock at centre. 1813 Etching and engraving
Producer name
After:
Joseph Vernet
Print made by:
John Byrne
Intermediary draughtsman:
William Marshall Craig
Published by:
Longman
Published by:
J White
Published by:
Cadell & Davies
Published by:
Peltro William Tomkins
School/style
British
Production date
1813
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
415 millimetres
(sheet size)
Width:
325 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
From 'Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection...', see 1860,0211.552 for comment
Bibliographic references
Arlaud 1976 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées d'après Joseph Vernet
(79)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
storm
shipwreck
Associated names
Associated with:
George Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edward Daniell
Acquisition date
1860
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1860,0211.599