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Marine View--The Wreckers, (painting)

Catalog Data

Artist:
Unknown  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 125
39 x 45. This large picture shows a stranded vessel; the surf breaking fiercely against the rock coast. Fragments of the wreck are strewn upon the shore, and a party of wreckers are endeavoring to "get a line ashore." [P. 11.]
The Cosmopolitan Art Association Illustrated Catalogue. 1854. For the Encouragement and General Diffusion of Literature & Art. W.H. Tineon, Stereotyper, 21 Beekman Street. John A. Gray, Printer, 97 Cliff Street. Address: Knickerbocker Office, 348 Broadway, New York; or, 166 Water St., Sandusky. A Descriptive Catalogue of Statuary, Bronze Statuettes and Oil Paintings, to be allotted to Members of the Cosmopolitan Art Association, at the Annual Distribution, in January, 1854.
Topic:
Waterscape--Boat  Search this
Disaster--Shipwreck  Search this
Landscape--Coast  Search this
Figure(s) In Exterior--Water  Search this
Occupation--Industry--Shipping  Search this
Control number:
AECI 02370047
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_46826