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Engraved plate of George Romney's "The Shipwreck"
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Engraved plate of George Romney's "The Shipwreck"
Original Image Dimensions 18"x24"
Source The Duncan Wu Collection
Description Arguably one of the most remarkable images in any engraved plate to come out of
Britain during the Romantic period, Blake's engraving is of George Romney's painting
"A Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope" (now lost), which was first published in
William Hayley's The Life of George Romney (Chichester, 1809).