Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Discovery of the drowned sailor].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00744
Identifier
ark:/88435/9s161f28x
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 14.3 x 21.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A30
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Seascape, man, two women, girl on left finds sailor on sandy shore, rocks, stern of boat left middle ground.
Unsigned.
The sailor being rescued is similar to the man on a mast in 'Misery <BMSat 8533> first published in 1786 e.g. see https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/810184. Rowlandson's brother James was in the merchant navy and drowned in.

Discovery Information

Subject
Boating accidents in art
Drowning victims in art
Sailors in art
Women in art
Girls in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2c68a7ad-6f68-479c-818a-45cd694ce66f/manifest