• Title
  Item 02: The Guardian Frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the South Seas, on which she struck, 24.th December 1789, in her Passage to Botany Bay, with the crew in the jolly boat / [possibly by Robert Dighton]
• Call number
  ML 1112 (b)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1790 (printed beneath image "Published as the Act directs 22nd Sept. 1790"), No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London : Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  100062
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - mezzotint engraving with etching - 25 x 35.2 cm (sight), appears to have been trimmed to plate marks - mounted with the drawing
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Originally collected by the Carrington Bowles family, from an album of drawings bound by them, ca. 1830. Sold by a descendant in Sotheby's rooms, 30/4/1953. Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, Thursday 10/3/88.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  It is not clear whether the watercolour ""The perilious situation of the Guardian Frigate as she appeared striking on the rocks of ice.."" is the original for, or a copy of, this mezzotint. The two images are virtually identical. Both are framed together at ML 1112.
  Both the watercolour and the mezzotint are numbered ""599""
  Digital order no:a1528528
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title is printed beneath image
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Possibly by Dighton, attributed to him by previous owner of work
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814
  
• Name
  Guardian (Ship)
  Riou, Edward, 1762-1801
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  sailors
  shipwrecks
  
• Place
  Indian Ocean
  

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