Castaways
Artist/Maker Van Beest, Albertus 1820 - 1860
Place MadeEurope --Dutch
Title

Castaways

DateCirca 1855
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensions10 5/8 × 14 7/8 in. (27 × 37.8 cm)
Object number1973.40.2
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionThis monochrome watercolor and gray wash focuses on three figures stranded on a rock in the right foreground. One appears to be beckoning to a faint ship in the distance. Lighting appears in the stormy scene. The corners of the paper are rounded.
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