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Flotsam and jetsam / Hooper sc.

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Sir William Quiller Orchardson
1832-1910

Flotsam and jetsam / Hooper sc.

[London? : s.n., 1876?]
wood engraving
image: 161 x 297 mm; sheet: 211 x 342 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1051
Notes
Title from published caption.
Block signed with artist's name.
Proof, touched with white, of a wood engraving by Hooper after R.W. Macbeth's drawing of a painting entitled Flotsam and jetsam, by William Quiller Orchardson, possibly created for publication in Revue l'Art, 1876.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a woman on the seashore struggling to haul a trunk or crate of cargo out of the surf with a rope.

Associated names
Macbeth, Robert W. (Robert Walker), 1848-1910, draftsman.
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints