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Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain, Shipwreck, 1745
- Title:
Shipwreck
- Additional Title(s):
Shipwrack
Naufrage
- Date:
- 1745
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm), Image: 10 9/16 × 15 1/16 inches (26.9 × 38.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, upper right: "5"; lower left: "P. Monamy Pinxt. | Shipwrack."; lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. Feby. 21. 1745/6 | Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill."; lower right: "Canot Sculpt. | Naufrage"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11976
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | flags | galleons | lightning | marine art | masts | men | men-of-war | meteorology | navy | sailboats | sails | science | seamen | ships | shipwreck | sky | storm | waves (natural events) | wind
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31762
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 94, 95, 168-69, cat. 35, fig. 73 and no. 35, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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