Drowning Collection

Undertow, 1886. Creator: Winslow Homer
Undertow, 1886. Rescuers try to haul ashore two women, weighed down by their waterlogged bathing dresses, in danger of being pulled beneath the waves by an undertow

Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. A '...tremendous storm...on the 17th of May...[wrecked a ship] belonging to the Union Steam Navigation Company...[She] was

Restorative treatment of the apparently drowned:...Silvester's method of inducing respiration, 1864
Restorative treatment of the apparently drowned: Dr Silvester's method of inducing respiration, 1864. Illustrations for '...instructions for the revival of persons apparently drowned

Restorative treatment of the apparently drowned: Dr...Hall's method of inducing respiration, 1864
Restorative treatment of the apparently drowned: Dr. Marshal Hall's method of inducing respiration, 1864. 'Inspiration; expiration...At this season

Illustrations of the War in Schleswig by our special artist: the Battle of Oversee, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Illustrations of the War in Schleswig by our special artist: the Battle of Oversee, 1864. 'The allies having crossed the Schlei and entered the town of Schleswig at an early hour on Saturday morning

The Crossing of the Red Sea. Creator: School of Frans Francken the Younger
The Crossing of the Red Sea, Unknown date

The War in Herzegovina: Fight on the Gatschko, near Lipnik...1876. Creator: Unknown
The War in Herzegovina: Fight on the Gatschko, near Lipnik, from a sketch by the correspondent of the "Russki Mir", 1876

The Policeman Aizawa Ihei Rescues a Young Girl from Drowning, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Policeman Aizawa Ihei Rescues a Young Girl from Drowning, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 532

The Ship of Salvation, 1512. Creator: Johann Gruninger
The Ship of Salvation, 1512. Christ is crucified on the mast of a sailing ship. Around him are depictions of other episodes from the Bible

The Girl Saku Rescuing a Baby from the River, published in 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Girl Saku Rescuing a Baby from the River, published in 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 729

Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's History of the Crusades, 1781. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's History of the Crusades, 1781

Army of Theodore overtaken by a flood crossing the Bashilo; A journey through Soudan... 1875. Creator: Unknown
Army of Theodore overtaken by a flood crossing the Bashilo; A journey through Soudan and Western Abyssinia, with Reminiscences of Captivity, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates

Sohni Swims to Meet Her Lover Mahinwal, between c1750 and c1775. Creator: Unknown
Sohni Swims to Meet Her Lover Mahinwal, between c1750 and c1775

The journey of Prince Maurits in Charon's ferry, 1710-1720. Creator: Anon
The journey of Prince Maurits in Charon's ferry, 1710-1720. Prince Willem II crosses the River Styx to the underworld; drowning people in the water, bodies hanging above

Dyke breach in Brakel, January 4, 1861, (1861). Creator: Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch
Dyke breach in Brakel, January 4, 1861, (1861). People stranded on rooftops in a flooded village, as others are swept away

Saving a life, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Saving a life, between 1900 and 1905

Saving a life, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Saving a life, between 1900 and 1905

The Inundation at Lyons - sketched by Gustave Dore, 1856. Creator: Gustave Doré
The Inundation at Lyons - sketched by Gustave Dore, 1856. The English traveller who has visited France, and knows the districts through which the river Rhone runs from Lyons to the Mediterranean

Wreck of the Chilian Steamer "Cazador", 1856. Creator: Smyth. Wreck of the Chilian Steamer
Wreck of the Chilian Steamer "Cazador", 1856. Disaster off the coast of Chile. The vessel left Talcahuano with a smooth sea

Collision in the English Channel, between the Steamer "Mangerton" and "The Josephine Willis", 1856. The mate [of the Josephine Willis]...shouted to the steamer; but no notice was

N'ayez pas d'inquiètoude... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
N'ayez pas d'inquietoude... 19th century. Philanthropists of the day - Don't worry

Une heure, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Singles Day (La Journee du Celibataire) - Une heure, 1839. One hour

Sur le point de se noyer... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sur le point de se noyer... 19th century. [Satire on the Crimean War - allegorical figures of Russia, and Prussia smoking a pipe]

The Crossing of the Red Sea, c.1585. Creator: Jan Wierix
The Crossing of the Red Sea, c.1585

The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1585. Creator: Jan Wierix
The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1585

Wreck of the Troop-ship "Charlotte" - Attempt of the Life-Boat, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the Troop-ship "Charlotte" - Attempt of the Life-Boat, 1854. British soldiers lost at sea off the coast of South Africa, during the Crimean War

Wreck of the Troop-ship "Charlotte", in Algoa Bay, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the Troop-ship "Charlotte", in Algoa Bay, 1854. British soldiers lost at sea off the coast of South Africa, during the Crimean War....she drifted in towards the shore

Storm in Balaclava Bay, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Storm in Balaclava Bay, 1854. Crimean War: Royal Navy ships lost in bad weather on the Black Sea. Captain Frain saving the sole survivor from the Wild Wave; Pride of Ocean; HMS Retribution; Medora;

Storm in Balaclava Bay, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Storm in Balaclava Bay, 1854. Crimean War: Royal Navy ships lost in bad weather on the Black Sea. Ship Caducis; Ship Progress; Maltese Brig; Steamer Melbourne; HMS Avon; HMS Vesuvius; Wild Wave; Ship

Ophelia, between 1894 and 1895. Creator: Paul Albert Steck
Ophelia, between 1894 and 1895

Wreck of an Egyptian Vessel of War between Constantinople and Varna, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of an Egyptian Vessel of War between Constantinople and Varna, 1854. Crimean War. The night of October 30th, the western coast of [the Black Sea] was visited by one of the most terrific

Wreck of "The Forerunner" African Mail-Steamer, at Point St. Lorenzo, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of "The Forerunner" African Mail-Steamer, at Point St. Lorenzo, 1854. Steamship...on its homeward passage to England from the west coast of Africa...having on board her Majesty's

"The Arctic" Steam-Ship, 1854. Creator: Unknown. "The Arctic" Steam-Ship, 1854. Creator: Unknown
"The Arctic" Steam-Ship, 1854. Two ships collide in poor visibility....the Arctic steam-ship, on her passage from Liverpool to New York, while running in a very thick fog

Catastrophe at a Ship-Launch, at Hull, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Catastrophe at a Ship-Launch, at Hull, 1854. Messrs. Earle, the eminent iron ship builders...had arranged to launch from their yard...a very fine iron barque, named the Dowthorpe

"The Nile" Screw Steam-Ship, wrecked off Godrevy Point, 1854. Creator: Unknown
"The Nile" Screw Steam-Ship, wrecked off Godrevy Point [in Cornwall], 1854. Vessel of the British and Irish Steam Company....in a tempestuous sea and thick weather

Sangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse... 1835/36. Creator: Hokusai
Sangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)", Japan, 1835/36

Study for Saint Philip Neri Rescuing a Drowning Youth, 1596/99. Creator: Cristofano Roncalli
Study for Saint Philip Neri Rescuing a Drowning Youth, 1596/99

Shipwreck, n.d. Creator: Cornelis de Wael
Shipwreck, n.d

Downfall, plate twelve from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Downfall, plate twelve from A Life, 1884

Downfall, from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Downfall, from A Life, 1884

Downfall, plate twelve from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Downfall, plate twelve from A Life, 1884

Back into Nothingness, plate fifteen from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Back into Nothingness, plate fifteen from A Life, 1884

The Deluge, after 1548. Creator: Melchior Lorichs
The Deluge, after 1548

Image Design for a Poster, Wagenaar's Cantata The Shipwreck, 1899. Creator: Jan Toorop
Image Design for a Poster, Wagenaar's Cantata The Shipwreck, 1899

Pharoah and His Host Perishing in the Red Sea (verso); The Freeing of King Joachim... 1491. Creator: Michael Wolgemut
Pharoah and His Host Perishing in the Red Sea (verso); The Freeing of King Joachim of Jerusalem (recto), pages 56 and 55, from the Treasury (Schatzbehalter), 1491

The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842), November 1, 1843. Creator: George Baxter
The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842), November 1, 1843

Omega's Death, 1908/09. Creator: Edvard Munch
Omega's Death, 1908/09

Destruction of Retreating Russians at Satschan Lake, 1805, (1896). Retreat by Russian forces that had been defeated by the French at the Battle of Austerlitz

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