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Shipwrecks

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  • A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1820.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Saint Paul: he is shipwrecked on Malta. Engraving, 1794, by B.T. Pouncy after P.J. Loutherbourg.
  • A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
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Catalogue

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    Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.

    West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. | Date: 1 January 1791 | Reference: 23963i
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    Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.

    R., T., active 1878. | Date: 10 February 1883 | Reference: 17940i
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    The voyage of the 'Frolic' : New England merchants and the opium trade / Thomas N. Layton.

    Layton, Thomas N. | Date: 1997
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    An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck / by Sir William Hillary.

    Hillary, William, 1771-1847. | Date: 1823
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    Ship-wreck near Caiphas, with Mount Carmel in the distance. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1843] | Reference: 36890i
    Part of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
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