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1798
GUSN-17279
"ROBINSON CRUSOE and the CREW, escaping from the WRECK/ I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up, when the Seaman told me she was sinking." Scene with eleven men in lifeboat watching two ships sink. Engraving later hand colored in shades of red, blue, and yellow. Wood frame with applied gilt.
engravings (prints)
hand coloring
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Picture
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Hand Colored
Literature
Picture
Inscribed underneath print: ""London: Published May 1-1798, by Haines and Son, 19 Rolls Building, Fetter Lane.""
Crusoe, Robinson
Haines & Son (Maker)
London, England
8 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
1942.794A
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