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- Title:
A Ship in Distress
- Additional Title(s):
Vaisseau en danger
- Date:
- 1745
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm), Plate: 11 3/4 x 15 13/16 inches (29.9 x 40.2 cm), Image: 10 9/16 x 14 15/16 inches (26.8 x 37.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered in black ink, upper left: "6"; lower left: "Monamy pinxt. | A SHIP IN DISTRESS. | Design'd to represent the loss of the Victory by a violent Storm near the Race of Alderney | in the Year 1744. Sr. John Balchen the Admiral, & upwards of 1000 [^Men] were on boars & unhappily | perish'd in the Waves."; lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 21 Febry. 1745-6. | Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill."; lower right: "Canot sculp. | VAISSEAU EN DANGER | Cette Estampe represente la Perte du Vaisseau la Victoire pres du Raz de Aurigni dans une grande | Tempete lan 1744. le Chevalier Jean Balchen Admiral, & plus de 1000 Hommes d'Equipage y Perit | Malheureusement."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11977
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- channel (water body component) | clouds | death | flags | galleons | light | marine art | masts | men-of-war | meteorology | rocks (landforms) | sails | science | sea | ships | shipwreck | sky | storm | waves (natural events)
- Associated Places:
- Alderney Race | Europe
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31764
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