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Shipwrecks

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  • A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1820.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Saint Paul: he is shipwrecked on Malta. Engraving, 1794, by B.T. Pouncy after P.J. Loutherbourg.
  • A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.
  • Saint Paul: his shipwreck on Malta. Engraving by M. Vandergucht after G. Freman.
  • Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.
  • Ship-wreck near Caiphas, with Mount Carmel in the distance. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Saint Paul, shipwrecked on Malta, is attacked by a snake which he shakes off into a fire; it does not harm him and the onlookers take him for a god. Etching after J. Thornhill.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A sunken ship representing German commerce; a bearded skeleton next to it. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
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