print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1873,0510.1232
- Title
- Object: The Guardian Frigate wrecked on an Island of Ice December 23d. 1789
- Description
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Figures in a rowing boat in the foreground, pulling a man out of the water at left, escaping the wrecked ship that has ran into ice behind at right, members of the crew jumping from the deck into other boats behind; octagonal frame, after Charles Benazech, illustration to Lyttleton's 'History of England'. 1802
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1802
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See curator's comment for 1872,0113.125 for a list of the reg numbers of P&D holdings of engravings after Benazech from the same publication.
See 1872,0113.207 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0510.1232