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- Creator:
- Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1787]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 787.06.04.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young man being hauled out of the water by men in a fishing boat, one holding onto a pole he clutches, another supported by his companions, as he reaches out over the side of the boat to seize the drowning man's jacket; with three gentlemen in a boat behind to right and a hot-air balloon sinking in the waves in the background; after Barralet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs June 4th, 1787, by Thos. Milton, No. 40 Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, and by J. James Barralet, in Dublin
- Subject (Name):
- MacGwire, Richard, active 1785,
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballooning accidents, Balloons (Aircraft), Fishing boats, and Rescues
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The preservation of Sir Richard MacGwire who fell into the sea (by the descent of a balloon) off the coast of Ireland, on the 12th of May, 1785 / [graphic]