Tag: wreckage

Wreckages, 1902-1958

Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
The wreck of the “Castagna”, So. Wellfleet, Feb. 17, 1914. Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Arthur Alvin :: Wreck of Cape Ann, 1948. Eastham Historical Society. | src Digital Commonwealth
Arthur Alvin :: Wreck of Cape Ann, 1948. Eastham Historical Society. | src Digital Commonwealth
The ‘Jennie C. May’ wrecked on the Peaked Hill Bars ca. 1902. Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 – 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 28 | Provincetown History Preservation Project
The ‘Jennie C. May’ wrecked on the Peaked Hill Bars ca. 1902. Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 – 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 28 | Provincetown History Preservation Project
The dragger Paulmino awash in the surf on back shore, 1958. Ross Moffett Collection | src Provincetown History Preservation Project

L’épave ~ The Waif ~ Strandgut

Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse :: L’épave ~ The Waif ~ Strandgut. Vintage postcard. AN: Alfred Noyer, Paris, nº 2469. | src DelCampe

Cast up by the sea, 1873

Winslow Homer :: The wreck of the “Atlantic” – Cast up by the sea. Published in: Harper’s Weekly, Volume XVII, 26 April 1873, p. 345. Drawn by Winslow Homer. Signed: W H. |src Boston Public Library
The wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast up by the sea by Winslow Homer. Published in: Harper's Weekly, April 1873 (full page)
The wreck of the “Atlantic” – Cast up by the sea by Winslow Homer. Published in: Harper’s Weekly, April 1873 (full page)

(Visual connections)

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

La mort (naufrage) de Virginie

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais
Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

(theme connections)

Naufrage de Virginie / Gravure de Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger (1767 – 1841), d’après Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823)
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Paul et Virginie. Paris: Pierre Didot l’Ainé, 1806.
Engraving after Prudhon. Luxury edition put together by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. | src Bonhams

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.