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Author



Alternative names	J. M. W. Turner
Description	British painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death	circa 23 April 1775	19 December 1851
Location of birth/death	London	Chelsea
Work location	London, Britain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Authority file	: Q159758 VIAF: 100900492 ISNI: 0000000121454990 ULAN: 500026846 LCCN: n79060712 NLA: 35751158 WorldCat

Object type

painting

Description

The Loss of an East Indiaman (formerly Loss of a Man of War), depicting the shipwreck of the Halsewell East Indiaman on 6 January 1786, off the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. Painted by Joseph Mallord William Turner circa 1818, watercolour on paper, 280 x 395 mm; Collection of trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Date

before 1851

Medium

painting

Source/Photographer

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1299

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