Clearing a wreck on the north coast of Cornwall [graphic]

"Beach scene, a single-masted ship keeled on its side at centre right, men working on it and unloading barrels into an ox-drawn cart, two other carts heading away in procession behind at left; in another procession in the same direction, a cart with bodies laid out, a man and two women following, a man throwin up his arms, another carrying a man on his shoulders; at right, a man and woman praying or wringing their hands over a corpse of a sailor lying on the beach; sea at right, rocky cliffs jutting out onto the beach and shore at left."--British Museum online catalogue