Distress [graphic]

Description

Title: Distress [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Palser, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. Palser, Surrey side Westminster Bridge
Abstract: A boat crammed with shipwrecked men, with an oar projecting to the right. One man leans his elbows on the gunwale while two of his companions throw a corpse overboard
Description: Title from caption below image.
Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of business at the address in imprint. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 169.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: From the collection of Lorenz Eitner.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.8 x 49 cm, on sheet 38 x 51 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Shipwrecks
Castaways
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Castaways
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Eitner, Lorenz > Ownership

Access: Public
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