Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Discovery of the drowned woman].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00749
Identifier
ark:/88435/4j03d675h
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 18.2 x 25 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A35
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Seascape, two men carrying body of woman on rocky shore foreground; shipwreck and man climbing from sea in middle ground; background of sea, rocks, castle, another shipwreck.
Unsigned.
Rowlandson made a number of prints of stormy coasts after Backhuysen and Van der Velder; this can be seen as a comic variation.

Discovery Information

Subject
Accidents in art
Death in art
Drowning victims in art
Shipwrecks 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/46d77389-f7a5-48ce-a61d-f1ee10adf1f8/manifest