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The Wreckers

Image credit: Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

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A coastal scene with, in the foreground on the left, a group of men salvaging gear from a ship that has run aground on the rocks in a stormy sea. On the left is a man, obviously injured, lying back on a pile of bundles, his shirt torn open at the chest. Above him, a man unloads bundles of luggage from the cart. There are barrels and boxes strewn around on the rocks. Two men are standing in the cart; one holds his hat on against the wind, and looks at the wrecked ship, while the other pulls up a bundle passed to him from below. On the right, two men pull on a rope to retrieve a bundle in the waves. A stormy, cloudy sky lowers in the distance on the right, while a rocky cliffside occupies the left background of the picture.

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Nottingham

Title

The Wreckers

Date

c.1790

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.8 x W 68.6 cm

Accession number

NCM 1904-53

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mr Richard Godson Millns, 1904

Work type

Painting

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Nottingham City Council, Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG2 3NG England

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