The Guardian frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the South Seas, on which she struck 24th December 1789, in her passage to Botany Bay, with the departure of the crew in the jolly boat [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
published as the act directs, 22d Septr. 1790 - Physical Description:
- 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28 x 40 cm
- Notes:
- Title engraved below image.
Artist from Sotheby's catalog.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Spy-glasses.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Watermark. - Associated Names:
- Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793 [Publisher]
- Topics:
- Axes
Icebergs
Livestock
Rescue work
Riou, Edward, 1762-
Sailors
Ships
Shipwrecks - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1790
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 790.09.22.01+
- Orbis Record:
- 7748950
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr06992
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10731312
- PID:
- digcoll:550701
