• Title
  Wreck of the Waterloo at Cape Town, 1842 / Huggins
• Creator
  W. J. Huggins
• Call number
  ML 399
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  844535
• Issue Copy
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading RoomCopy print : ML 399
  
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 22 x 31 1/2 in.
  
• Collection history
  The donor, Dr G. Kelsall, stated (see correspondence 259/1956 in-letter 28.6.56) that the picture was given to him in 1928 by one of the executors of his grandfather's will, a Mr Avery Holmes Forbes. Dr Kelsall's great grandfather, Henry Kelsall was surgeon-superintendent of the Waterloo.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  
  Title is from donor's description.
• General note
  
  An account of the wreck can be found at Lafond, G. 'Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres', Tome VII pp. 1-5
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Waterloo (ship)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'Huggins'
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Possibly W. J. Huggins. Have no example of his work except as reproduction by lithography.
• Topic
  shipwrecks
  convict ships
  shipwreck survivors
  seascapes (artwork)
  
• Place
  Cape Town (South Africa)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19829509

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