[Discovery of the drowned sailor].

Attributed to
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
n.d.
Description
1 item ; sheet 14.3 x 21.5 cm.

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2014.00744 D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
    • Depiction: Seascape, man, two women, girl on left finds sailor on sandy shore, rocks, stern of boat left middle ground.
    • Unsigned.
    • The sailor being rescued is similar to the man on a mast in 'Misery first published in 1786 e.g. see https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/810184. Rowlandson's brother James was in the merchant navy and drowned in.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
    References
    Rothrock no. A30
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