Mounted 1806 etching of goods being recovered from wreck of ...

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Mounted 1806 etching of goods being recovered from wreck of Abergavenny by Tonkin's diving machine - 44cm x 56cm ~ Earl of Abergavenny (East India Company ship built 1796) sunk on 5-Feb-1805 in Weymouth Bay with the loss of 263 lives (⅔ of passengers) inc Captain John Wordsworth Jnr (the brother of William Wordsworth) ~ the diving machine & print is by Ralph Tonkin (Penzance) - the print has obvious damage but RARE

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Auction Date:
30th Mar 23 at 10am BST

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