The Wreck of the Reliance off Boulogne

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Artist/Maker	Le Blond & Co. (printmakers)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made) United States (published)

Untrimmed Baxter-process print depicting a stormy and dramatic shipwreck scene. The remains of the ship (the tea-merchant ship Reliance) are shown in the centre of the image being swallowed up by the waves. A group of people are shown in the sea to the left of the foreground, some of them struggling to stay above the waves.

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Categories	Prints Boats and Ships
Object type	Print
Title	The Wreck of the Reliance off Boulogne (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Baxter-process print on paper Paper Ink Baxter-Process
Brief description	Print by Le Blond & Co., 'The Wreck of the Reliance off Boulogne', Baxter-process print, Great Britain, 19th century
Physical description	Untrimmed Baxter-process print depicting a stormy and dramatic shipwreck scene. The remains of the ship (the tea-merchant ship Reliance) are shown in the centre of the image being swallowed up by the waves. A group of people are shown in the sea to the left of the foreground, some of them struggling to stay above the waves.
Dimensions	Height: 11.5in Width: 17.25in Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Marks and inscriptions	'Le Blond & Co. London . . . . Elliot & Co. Boston U. S.' (Lettered on the print) (Traces of half obliterated lettering in the margin)
Object history	Le Blond & Co., established between 1840 and 1845, became the first Baxter-process print licensees in 1849. In 1868, a year after George Baxter died, Le Blond acquired 66 sets of Baxter’s original plates and blocks and republished these subjects. Information from an article by the New Baxter Society ‘Abraham Le Blond', (see references).
Bibliographic references	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933 Information from an article by the New Baxter Society ‘Abraham Le Blond’ : http://web.archive.org/web/20230117120523/https://newbaxtersociety.org/leblond.aspx
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1688-1898

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O903967/the-wreck-of-the-reliance-print-le-blond/

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