Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: At sea, men in sailboat rescue sailor from broken mast.
Unsigned.
Drawing in reverse for the middle etching on plate 12 of The World in Miniature, forty pages of small vignettes and etchings published in parts by Rudolph Ackermann in 1816 and then reissued as a book in 1817. Copy at Princeton e.g. see
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A31
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