COLLECTION NAME:
Wetmore Print Collection
Record
Filename:
FW-0266.jpg
Creator:
GELLEE, Claude (Lorrain)
Creation Date:
1600-1699
Primary Creation Century:
17th Century
Title:
The Shipwreck
Alternate Title:
Le Naufrage
Object Type:
print
Medium:
etching
Donor:
Fannie Wetmore, 1928; Donated 1928, purchased from F. Meder (Manhattan “Dealer in Old and Rare Prints”) in 1907 as a collection with 12 other Gellee prints of which this probably was 1, documented by receipt in our Wetmore archives
Dimensions:
12.7 height x 17.78 width 12.8 x 18 cm (image) 13 x 18.3
Descriptive Notes:
(Possibly one of his "seaport" prints?)
Comments:
seascapes, men, vessels, sailors, ships, shipwrecks, oceans, storms, seas, disasters, boats, lifeboats, ruins, castles & palaces
Box Number:
Box15 print 16
