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The Last Moments of Tom Coffin, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Sully, Thomas 1783-1872  Search this
Subject:
Coffin, Tom  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art Hanover New Hampshire 03755 Accession Number: P.999.39
Date:
1824
Notes:
MacAdam, Barbara J., "Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, no. 34.
Summary:
Image of the wreck of the schooner Ariel with the ship's coxswain Tom Coffin clinging to the remains of his ship.
Topic:
Waterscape  Search this
Disaster--Shipwreck  Search this
Portrait male--Full length  Search this
Control number:
IAP 30660421
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_381335