print
- Museum number
- 1862,1011.425
- Title
- Object: The Preservation of Richard Macgwire
- Description
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Richard MacGwire in the foreground, holding onto one end of a pole passed to him by a man in a rowing boat, while three others hold onto a companion who leans out of the boat to pull MacGwire out of the water, and two others, one with a rope, stand ready to help, as Lord Fitzgerald, Mr Oliver and Mr Thornton approach in a rowing boat, standing and pointing, and the balloon in which MacGwire has come down flats away in the background; after Barralet. 1787
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 384 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 540 millimetres (trimmed)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Acquisition notes
- 1862,1011.412 to 670 are listed as having come from the sale of J J A Fillinham at Puttick & Simpson on 6-8 August 1862. They comprised lot numbers 332, 339, 345, 402, 433, 569, 570, 571, 573, 577 and 578.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,1011.425