print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6815
- Title
- Object: The Wreckers off Fort Rouge, Calais in the distance
- Description
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Seascape; men in a rowing boat rescuing a survivor from a shipwreck, who clings to a broken mast in the right foreground; other boats are gathered around a wooden hut on stilts behind them, a ship capsizes in the distance on the left, and people gather on the shore in the distance to right to haul in survivors and goods; after Stanfield; with production details only. 1829
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 605 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 715 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a republished state, see 2010,7081.6820
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.6815