Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Drawn from nature and on stone by s. prout.

Item Description

Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 22 x 15.5 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 13 x 10 inches. Dramatic view of a two-masted sailing ship wrecked off Sandgate Castle. There is a rescue boat alongside the wreck and rescuers on the shore heave on a line to the beach. In the foreground are rocks and the ship's rudder, which has carried away.

Notes

This plate was originally issued as part of Hullmandel and Harding's Britannia Delineata: Comprising Views of the Antiquities, Remarkable Buildings Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Kent (1822). It was the first of a series proposed to illustrate every county but, because of its high cost, it was a publishing failure and only Kent was ever issued.