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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